Qwen3-8B vs zephyr-7b-beta

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.

Qwen · A
Params
8.2 B
Context
40,960
30d
16.3 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
HuggingFaceH4 · B
Params
7.2 B
Context
32,768
30d
161 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen3-8B zephyr-7b-beta
Parameters 8.2 B 7.2 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM MistralForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 32,768
Licence apache-2.0 mit
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 16,272,885 160,703
Downloads all time 103.2 M 12.7 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2023-10-26

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)

16.6 M161 K
Qwen3-8B zephyr-7b-beta

VRAM side by side

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

zephyr-7b-beta · fp16 17.5 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen3-8B · fp16 19.7 GB / 24 GB
⚠️ Tight — reduce context

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