Qwen3-8B vs Mistral-Small-24B-Instruct-2501-AWQ

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 September 2026.

Qwen · A
Params
8.2 B
Context
40,960
30d
12.9 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
stelterlab · B
Params
23.6 B
Context
32,768
30d
232 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen3-8B Mistral-Small-24B-Instruct-2501-AWQ
Parameters 8.2 B 23.6 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM MistralForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 32,768
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 10
Downloads 30d 12,880,320 231,867
Downloads all time 124.0 M 2.8 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2025-01-30

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)

16.6 M227 K
Qwen3-8B Mistral-Small-24B-Instruct-2501-AWQ

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-8B · fp16 19.7 GB / 24 GB
⚠️ Tight — reduce context
Mistral-Small-24B-Instruct-2501-AWQ · fp16 19.7 GB / 24 GB
⚠️ Tight — reduce context

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