Qwen3-8B vs Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-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
unsloth · B · Open weights
Params
7.6 B
Context
32,768
30d
132 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen3-8B Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct
Parameters 8.2 B 7.6 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 6,837,564 132,031
Downloads all time 137.6 M 693 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2024-09-23

Download trend

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

16.4 M130 K
Qwen3-8B Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct · fp16 18.4 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen3-8B · fp16 19.7 GB / 24 GB
⚠️ Tight — reduce context

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