Qwen3-8B vs Qwen_Qwen3-4B-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
bartowski · B · Open weights
Params
4.0 B
Context
40,960
30d
244 K

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen3-8B Qwen_Qwen3-4B-GGUF
Parameters 8.2 B 4.0 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM —
Context length 40,960 40,960
Licence apache-2.0 —
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 8,164,793 244,465
Downloads all time 133.8 M 333 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS GGUF
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2025-04-28

Download trend

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

16.6 M192 K
Qwen3-8B Qwen_Qwen3-4B-GGUF

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-8B · fp16 19.7 GB / 24 GB
⚠️ Tight — reduce context

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