Qwen3-8B vs Llama-3.2-3B
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.
meta-llama · B · Open weights
Params
3.2 B
Context
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30d
269 K
llama3.2 licence · conditional
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen3-8B | Llama-3.2-3B |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 8.2 B | 3.2 B |
| Architecture | Qwen3ForCausalLM | LlamaForCausalLM |
| Context length | 40,960 | — |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | llama3.2 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Conditional |
| Languages | — | 8 |
| Downloads 30d | 6,837,564 | 269,073 |
| Downloads all time | 137.6 M | 15.2 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | Yes — accept licence |
| First seen on the Hub | 2025-04-27 | 2024-09-18 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)
16.4 M225 K
Qwen3-8B
Llama-3.2-3B
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Llama-3.2-3B · fp16
8.0 GB / 24 GB
Qwen3-8B · fp16
19.7 GB / 24 GB