Qwen3-8B vs Mistral-7B-v0.1-GGUF

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
MaziyarPanahi · B · Open weights
Params
7.0 B
Context
32,768
30d
157 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-8B Mistral-7B-v0.1-GGUF
Parameters 8.2 B 7.0 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM —
Context length 40,960 32,768
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 8,164,793 156,507
Downloads all time 133.8 M 163 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS GGUF
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2024-02-03

Download trend

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

16.6 M155 K
Qwen3-8B Mistral-7B-v0.1-GGUF

VRAM side by side

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

Mistral-7B-v0.1-GGUF · Q4_K_M 6.4 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen3-8B · fp16 19.7 GB / 24 GB
⚠️ Tight — reduce context

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