Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct vs gemma-3-4b-it
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.
Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
4.4 B
Context
—
30d
3.7 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct | gemma-3-4b-it |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Open weights | Open weights · also via API |
| Parameters | 4.4 B | 4.3 B |
| Architecture | Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration | Gemma3ForConditionalGeneration |
| Context length | — | 131,072 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | gemma |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Conditional |
| Languages | — | — |
| Downloads 30d | 3,747,873 | 1,008,800 |
| Downloads all time | 33.3 M | 28.1 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | Yes — accept licence |
| First seen on the Hub | 2025-10-11 | 2025-02-20 |
| API input price / 1M tokens | not on OpenRouter | $0.05 |
| API output price / 1M tokens | not on OpenRouter | $0.10 |
| Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens | not on OpenRouter | $0.15 |
| Cached input / 1M tokens | not on OpenRouter | — |
| AA Intelligence Index | not on OpenRouter | — |
| AA Coding Index | not on OpenRouter | 2.7 |
| AA Agentic Index | not on OpenRouter | — |
| Max output tokens | not on OpenRouter | 16,384 |
| API providers | not on OpenRouter | 2 |
| Tool calling | not on OpenRouter | No |
| Reasoning mode | not on OpenRouter | No |
API cost
Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter
gemma-3-4b-it
$0.15
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)
4.3 M950 K
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
Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct · fp16
10.9 GB / 24 GB