Qwen3-8B vs EXAONE-3.5-7.8B-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
LGAI-EXAONE · B
Params
7.8 B
Context
32,768
30d
518 K

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-8B EXAONE-3.5-7.8B-Instruct
Parameters 8.2 B 7.8 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM ExaoneForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 32,768
Licence apache-2.0 other
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages 2
Downloads 30d 16,272,885 518,320
Downloads all time 103.2 M 3.2 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2024-12-01

Download trend

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

16.6 M507 K
Qwen3-8B EXAONE-3.5-7.8B-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
EXAONE-3.5-7.8B-Instruct · fp16 36.1 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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