Qwen3-8B vs CodeLlama-7b-hf

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

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
8.2 B
Context
40,960
30d
6.8 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
codellama · B · Open weights
Params
6.7 B
Context
16,384
30d
151 K
llama2 licence · conditional

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen3-8B CodeLlama-7b-hf
Parameters 8.2 B 6.7 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM LlamaForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 16,384
Licence apache-2.0 llama2
Commercial use Allowed Conditional
Languages — 1
Downloads 30d 6,837,564 150,591
Downloads all time 137.6 M 4.6 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2023-08-24

Download trend

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

16.4 M151 K
Qwen3-8B CodeLlama-7b-hf

VRAM side by side

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

CodeLlama-7b-hf · fp16 16.3 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen3-8B · fp16 19.7 GB / 24 GB
⚠️ Tight — reduce context

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