Qwen3-8B vs TwIL-LM3

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 September 2026.

Qwen · A

Params

8.2 B

Context

40,960

30d

12.9 M

apache-2.0 · commercial OK

webAI-Official · B

Params

3.1 B

Context

65,536

30d

384 K

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification	Qwen3-8B	TwIL-LM3
Parameters	8.2 B	3.1 B
Architecture	Qwen3ForCausalLM	SmolLM3ForCausalLM
Context length	40,960	65,536
Licence	apache-2.0	other
Commercial use	Allowed	Unknown
Languages	—	1
Downloads 30d	12,880,320	383,511
Downloads all time	124.0 M	495 K
Quantizations on the Hub	SAFETENSORS	GGUF, SAFETENSORS
Gated	No	No
First seen on the Hub	2025-04-27	2026-08-03

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)

16.6 M179 K

Qwen3-8B TwIL-LM3

VRAM side by side

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

TwIL-LM3 · Q4_K_M 3.1 GB / 24 GB

✅ Runs comfortably

TwIL-LM3 · fp16 7.7 GB / 24 GB

✅ Runs comfortably

Qwen3-8B · fp16 19.7 GB / 24 GB

⚠️ Tight — reduce context

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