Qwen3-8B vs Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-GPTQ-Int8

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 25 October 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
8.2 B
Context
40,960
30d
8.2 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
QuantTrio · B · Open weights
Params
30.5 B
Context
262,144
30d
163 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-8B Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-GPTQ-Int8
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 8,164,793 162,750
Downloads all time 133.8 M 289 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2025-08-01

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (28 Jul – 25 Oct)

16.6 M161 K
Qwen3-8B Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-GPTQ-Int8

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-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-GPTQ-Int8 · fp16 @ 256K ctx 182.3 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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