Qwen3-8B vs Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct-1M
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.
Qwen · B · Open weights
Params
14.8 B
Context
1,010,000
30d
154 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen3-8B | Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct-1M |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 8.2 B | 14.8 B |
| Architecture | Qwen3ForCausalLM | Qwen2ForCausalLM |
| Context length | 40,960 | 1,010,000 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | — | 1 |
| Downloads 30d | 6,837,564 | 153,668 |
| Downloads all time | 137.6 M | 931 K |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2025-04-27 | 2025-01-23 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)
16.4 M148 K
Qwen3-8B
Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct-1M
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Qwen3-8B · fp16
19.7 GB / 24 GB
Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct-1M · fp16 @ 986K ctx
306.1 GB / 24 GB