Qwen3-8B vs Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.
Qwen · B
Params
30.5 B
Context
262,144
30d
1.9 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen3-8B | Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507 |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 8.2 B | 30.5 B |
| Architecture | Qwen3ForCausalLM | Qwen3MoeForCausalLM |
| Context length | 40,960 | 262,144 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | — | — |
| Downloads 30d | 16,272,885 | 1,903,736 |
| Downloads all time | 103.2 M | 15.3 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2025-04-27 | 2025-07-28 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)
16.6 M1.9 M
Qwen3-8B
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Qwen3-8B · fp16
19.7 GB / 24 GB
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507 · fp16 @ 256K ctx
214.2 GB / 24 GB