Qwen3-8B vs deepseek-coder-6.7b-instruct

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

Qwen · A
Params
8.2 B
Context
40,960
30d
16.3 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
deepseek-ai · B
Params
6.7 B
Context
16,384
30d
553 K

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen3-8B deepseek-coder-6.7b-instruct
Parameters 8.2 B 6.7 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM LlamaForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 16,384
Licence apache-2.0 other
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages
Downloads 30d 16,272,885 553,010
Downloads all time 103.2 M 3.1 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2023-10-29

Download trend

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

16.6 M467 K
Qwen3-8B deepseek-coder-6.7b-instruct

VRAM side by side

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

deepseek-coder-6.7b-instruct · fp16 16.3 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen3-8B · fp16 19.7 GB / 24 GB
⚠️ Tight — reduce context

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