Qwen3-8B vs Ornith-1.5-9B-MLX

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
8.2 B
Context
40,960
30d
6.8 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
ornith-ai · B · Open weights
Params
9.0 B
Context
—
30d
326 K

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-8B Ornith-1.5-9B-MLX
Parameters 8.2 B 9.0 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration
Context length 40,960 —
Licence apache-2.0 —
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages — 1
Downloads 30d 6,837,564 325,652
Downloads all time 137.6 M 866 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2026-08-18

Download trend

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

16.4 M196 K
Qwen3-8B Ornith-1.5-9B-MLX

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-8B · fp16 19.7 GB / 24 GB
⚠️ Tight — reduce context
Ornith-1.5-9B-MLX · fp16 21.5 GB / 24 GB
⚠️ Tight — reduce context

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