Qwen3-8B vs zephyr-7b-beta
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 7 August 2026.
HuggingFaceH4 · B · Open weights
Params
7.2 B
Context
32,768
30d
161 K
mit · commercial OK
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| 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 | 6,837,564 | 160,703 |
| Downloads all time | 137.6 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 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)
16.4 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
Qwen3-8B · fp16
19.7 GB / 24 GB