Qwen3-8B vs Qwen3-14B
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen3-8B | Qwen3-14B |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Open weights | Open weights · also via API |
| Parameters | 8.2 B | 14.8 B |
| Architecture | Qwen3ForCausalLM | Qwen3ForCausalLM |
| Context length | 40,960 | 40,960 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | — | — |
| Downloads 30d | 6,837,564 | 12,904,408 |
| Downloads all time | 137.6 M | 46.1 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2025-04-27 | 2025-04-27 |
| API input price / 1M tokens | not on OpenRouter | $0.10 |
| API output price / 1M tokens | not on OpenRouter | $0.22 |
| Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens | not on OpenRouter | $0.32 |
| Cached input / 1M tokens | not on OpenRouter | — |
| AA Intelligence Index | not on OpenRouter | — |
| AA Coding Index | not on OpenRouter | 13.8 |
| AA Agentic Index | not on OpenRouter | 0.9 |
| Max output tokens | not on OpenRouter | 36,864 |
| API providers | not on OpenRouter | 2 |
| Tool calling | not on OpenRouter | Yes |
| Reasoning mode | not on OpenRouter | Yes |
API cost
Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter
Qwen3-14B
$0.32
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)
16.4 M1.6 M
Qwen3-8B
Qwen3-14B
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Qwen3-8B · fp16
19.7 GB / 24 GB
Qwen3-14B · fp16
35.2 GB / 24 GB