Qwen3-8B vs Qwen1.5-MoE-A2.7B

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
Qwen · B
Params
14.3 B
Context
8,192
30d
673 K

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-8B Qwen1.5-MoE-A2.7B
Parameters 8.2 B 14.3 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM Qwen2MoeForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 8,192
Licence apache-2.0 other
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 12,880,320 672,842
Downloads all time 124.0 M 2.6 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2024-02-29

Download trend

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

16.6 M182 K
Qwen3-8B Qwen1.5-MoE-A2.7B

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-8B · fp16 19.7 GB / 24 GB
⚠️ Tight — reduce context
Qwen1.5-MoE-A2.7B · fp16 34.1 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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