Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct vs gemma-3-4b-it

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

Qwen · A
Params
4.4 B
Context
30d
4.0 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
google · B
Params
4.3 B
Context
30d
1.8 M
gemma licence · conditional

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct gemma-3-4b-it
Parameters 4.4 B 4.3 B
Architecture Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration Gemma3ForConditionalGeneration
Context length
Licence apache-2.0 gemma
Commercial use Allowed Conditional
Languages
Downloads 30d 3,998,087 1,819,143
Downloads all time 21.1 M 23.8 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No Yes — accept licence
First seen on the Hub 2025-10-11 2025-02-20

Download trend

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

4.0 M1.8 M
Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct gemma-3-4b-it

VRAM side by side

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

gemma-3-4b-it · fp16 10.6 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct · fp16 10.9 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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