Qwen3-8B vs L3-8B-Lunaris-v1

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 25 October 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
8.2 B
Context
40,960
30d
8.2 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Sao10K · B · Open weights
Params
8.0 B
Context
8,192
30d
2 K
llama3 licence · conditional

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-8B L3-8B-Lunaris-v1
Deployment Open weights Open weights · also via API
Parameters 8.2 B 8.0 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM LlamaForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 8,192
Licence apache-2.0 llama3
Commercial use Allowed Conditional
Languages — 1
Downloads 30d 8,164,793 1,682
Downloads all time 133.8 M 459 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2024-06-26
API input price / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter $0.04
API output price / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter $0.05
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens not on OpenRouter $0.09
Cached input / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter —
AA Intelligence Index not on OpenRouter —
AA Coding Index not on OpenRouter —
AA Agentic Index not on OpenRouter —
Max output tokens not on OpenRouter 7,372
API providers not on OpenRouter 2
Tool calling not on OpenRouter No
Reasoning mode not on OpenRouter No

API cost

Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter

L3-8B-Lunaris-v1 $0.09

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (28 Jul – 25 Oct)

16.6 M2 K
Qwen3-8B L3-8B-Lunaris-v1

VRAM side by side

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

L3-8B-Lunaris-v1 · fp16 19.4 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen3-8B · fp16 19.7 GB / 24 GB
⚠️ Tight — reduce context

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