Qwen3-8B vs Qwen3-32B

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 20 September 2026.

Qwen · A
Params
8.2 B
Context
40,960
30d
12.9 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Qwen · B
Params
32.8 B
Context
40,960
30d
5.0 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen3-8B Qwen3-32B
Parameters 8.2 B 32.8 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM Qwen3ForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 40,960
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages
Downloads 30d 12,931,851 5,035,207
Downloads all time 123.7 M 57.4 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2025-04-27

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 55 days (28 Jul – 20 Sep)

16.6 M3.5 M
Qwen3-8B Qwen3-32B

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-8B · fp16 19.7 GB / 24 GB
⚠️ Tight — reduce context
Qwen3-32B · fp16 77.5 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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