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

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 20 September 2026.

Qwen · A
Params
8.2 B
Context
40,960
30d
12.9 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
deepseek-ai · B
Params
6.7 B
Context
16,384
30d
306 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 12,931,851 306,374
Downloads all time 123.7 M 3.7 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 55 days (28 Jul – 20 Sep)

16.6 M306 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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