Qwen3-8B vs Ling-3.0-tiny-MLX-4bit

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 24 October 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
8.2 B
Context
40,960
30d
8.1 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
rapid-mlx · B · Open weights
Params
7.9 B
Context
131,072
30d
372 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-8B Ling-3.0-tiny-MLX-4bit
Parameters 8.2 B 7.9 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM BailingMoeV3ForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 131,072
Licence apache-2.0 mit
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 8,080,572 371,517
Downloads all time 133.5 M 378 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2026-08-11

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 89 days (28 Jul – 24 Oct)

16.6 M175 K
Qwen3-8B Ling-3.0-tiny-MLX-4bit

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-8B · fp16 19.7 GB / 24 GB
⚠️ Tight — reduce context
Ling-3.0-tiny-MLX-4bit · fp16 @ 128K ctx 24.3 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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