Qwen3.5-4B vs Qwen3.5-9B-GGUF

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 23 October 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
4.7 B
Context
—
30d
7.6 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
unsloth · B · Open weights
Params
—
Context
—
30d
1.3 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen3.5-4B Qwen3.5-9B-GGUF
Parameters 4.7 B —
Architecture Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration —
Context length — —
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 7,630,082 1,345,195
Downloads all time 54.0 M 10.0 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS GGUF
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-02-27 2026-02-28

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 88 days (28 Jul – 23 Oct)

8.1 M970 K
Qwen3.5-4B Qwen3.5-9B-GGUF

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3.5-9B-GGUF · Q4_0 6.4 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen3.5-4B · fp16 11.5 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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