Qwen3-8B vs lynx-instruct-30b

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 19 August 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
8.2 B
Context
40,960
30d
6.8 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
bineric · B · Open weights
Params
30.5 B
Context
262,144
30d
178 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-8B lynx-instruct-30b
Parameters 8.2 B 30.5 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM Qwen3MoeForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 262,144
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — 5
Downloads 30d 6,837,564 177,887
Downloads all time 137.6 M 1.2 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2026-01-12

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

16.4 M178 K
Qwen3-8B lynx-instruct-30b

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-8B · fp16 19.7 GB / 24 GB
⚠️ Tight — reduce context
lynx-instruct-30b · fp16 @ 256K ctx 214.2 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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