Qwen3-8B vs Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen3-8B | Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 8.2 B | 3.1 B |
| Architecture | Qwen3ForCausalLM | Qwen2ForCausalLM |
| Context length | 40,960 | 32,768 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | other |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Unknown |
| Languages | — | 1 |
| Downloads 30d | 16,272,885 | 5,952,246 |
| Downloads all time | 103.2 M | 110.0 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2025-04-27 | 2024-09-17 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)
16.6 M5.7 M
Qwen3-8B
Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct · fp16
7.8 GB / 24 GB
Qwen3-8B · fp16
19.7 GB / 24 GB