Qwen3-8B vs xflux_text_encoders

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
8.2 B
Context
40,960
30d
6.8 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
XLabs-AI · B · Open weights
Params
4.8 B
Context
—
30d
288 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen3-8B xflux_text_encoders
Parameters 8.2 B 4.8 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM T5EncoderModel
Context length 40,960 —
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — 1
Downloads 30d 6,837,564 287,766
Downloads all time 137.6 M 5.1 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2024-08-11

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

16.4 M232 K
Qwen3-8B xflux_text_encoders

VRAM side by side

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

xflux_text_encoders · fp16 11.7 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen3-8B · fp16 19.7 GB / 24 GB
⚠️ Tight — reduce context

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