Qwen3-8B vs DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Lite-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
15.7 B
Context
163,840
30d
557 K

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen3-8B DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Lite-Instruct
Parameters 8.2 B 15.7 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM DeepseekV2ForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 163,840
Licence apache-2.0 other
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages
Downloads 30d 16,272,885 556,971
Downloads all time 103.2 M 9.3 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2024-06-14

Download trend

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

16.6 M534 K
Qwen3-8B DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Lite-Instruct

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-8B · fp16 19.7 GB / 24 GB
⚠️ Tight — reduce context
DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Lite-Instruct · fp16 @ 160K ctx 82.2 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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