Qwen3-8B vs phi-4
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen3-8B | phi-4 |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Open weights | Open weights · also via API |
| Parameters | 8.2 B | 14.7 B |
| Architecture | Qwen3ForCausalLM | Phi3ForCausalLM |
| Context length | 40,960 | 16,384 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | mit |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | — | 1 |
| Downloads 30d | 6,837,564 | 275,580 |
| Downloads all time | 137.6 M | 14.9 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2025-04-27 | 2024-12-11 |
| API input price / 1M tokens | not on OpenRouter | $0.07 |
| API output price / 1M tokens | not on OpenRouter | $0.14 |
| Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens | not on OpenRouter | $0.21 |
| Cached input / 1M tokens | not on OpenRouter | — |
| AA Intelligence Index | not on OpenRouter | — |
| AA Coding Index | not on OpenRouter | — |
| AA Agentic Index | not on OpenRouter | — |
| Max output tokens | not on OpenRouter | 14,745 |
| API providers | not on OpenRouter | 1 |
| Tool calling | not on OpenRouter | No |
| Reasoning mode | not on OpenRouter | No |
API cost
Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter
phi-4
$0.21
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)
16.4 M276 K
Qwen3-8B
phi-4
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Qwen3-8B · fp16
19.7 GB / 24 GB
phi-4 · fp16
34.9 GB / 24 GB