Qwen3-8B vs DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.
deepseek-ai · B
Params
14.8 B
Context
131,072
30d
766 K
mit · commercial OK
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| 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 | 16,272,885 | 766,127 |
| Downloads all time | 103.2 M | 8.7 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 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)
16.6 M529 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
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B · fp16 @ 128K ctx
68.4 GB / 24 GB