Qwen3-8B vs LLaDA-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
GSAI-ML · B
Params
8.0 B
Context
30d
429 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen3-8B LLaDA-8B-Instruct
Parameters 8.2 B 8.0 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM LLaDAModelLM
Context length 40,960
Licence apache-2.0 mit
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages
Downloads 30d 16,272,885 429,004
Downloads all time 103.2 M 5.6 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2025-02-19

Download trend

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

16.6 M384 K
Qwen3-8B LLaDA-8B-Instruct

VRAM side by side

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

LLaDA-8B-Instruct · fp16 19.3 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen3-8B · fp16 19.7 GB / 24 GB
⚠️ Tight — reduce context

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