Qwen3-8B vs DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B

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
deepseek-ai · B · Open weights
Params
14.8 B
Context
131,072
30d
190 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen3-8B DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B
Parameters 8.2 B 14.8 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM Qwen2ForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 131,072
Licence apache-2.0 mit
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 6,837,564 189,567
Downloads all time 137.6 M 9.8 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2025-01-20

Download trend

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

16.4 M190 K
Qwen3-8B DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B

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-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B · fp16 @ 128K ctx 68.4 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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