Qwen3-4B vs SmolLM3-3B

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
4.0 B
Context
40,960
30d
4.0 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
HuggingFaceTB · B · Open weights
Params
3.1 B
Context
65,536
30d
386 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen3-4B SmolLM3-3B
Parameters 4.0 B 3.1 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM SmolLM3ForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 65,536
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — 8
Downloads 30d 4,013,632 386,350
Downloads all time 94.5 M 6.7 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2025-07-08

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

12.6 M386 K
Qwen3-4B SmolLM3-3B

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

SmolLM3-3B · fp16 7.7 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen3-4B · fp16 10.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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