Qwen3-8B vs Qwen2.5-Coder-14B-Instruct

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
8.2 B
Context
40,960
30d
6.8 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Qwen · B · Open weights
Params
14.8 B
Context
32,768
30d
1.9 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-8B Qwen2.5-Coder-14B-Instruct
Parameters 8.2 B 14.8 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM Qwen2ForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 32,768
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — 1
Downloads 30d 6,837,564 1,936,983
Downloads all time 137.6 M 20.0 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2024-11-06

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

16.4 M1.6 M
Qwen3-8B Qwen2.5-Coder-14B-Instruct

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-8B · fp16 19.7 GB / 24 GB
⚠️ Tight — reduce context
Qwen2.5-Coder-14B-Instruct · fp16 35.2 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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