Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4 vs aya-expanse-8b-AWQ

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.

nvidia · A
Params
18.7 B
Context
30d
11.3 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Orion-zhen · B
Params
9.1 B
Context
8,192
30d
198 K

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4 aya-expanse-8b-AWQ
Parameters 18.7 B 9.1 B
Architecture Qwen3_5MoeForConditionalGeneration CohereForCausalLM
Context length 8,192
Licence apache-2.0 gpl-3.0
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages 23
Downloads 30d 11,298,952 197,579
Downloads all time 19.7 M 204 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-05-27 2024-10-26

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)

11.3 M198 K
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4 aya-expanse-8b-AWQ

VRAM side by side

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

aya-expanse-8b-AWQ · fp16 10.5 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4 · fp16 29.1 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

Adjacent comparisons