What are the hardware requirements for Qwen3 14B?

Qwen3 14B requires approximately 29.7 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 40K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Qwen3 14B and how large is it?

Qwen3 14B is developed by Qwen, a model with 14b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

Where can I download or evaluate Qwen3 14B?

Qwen3 14B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Qwen3 14B by Qwen — VRAM 29.7GB, 40K context

Name: Qwen3 14B
Rating: 4 (8 reviews)
Author: Qwen

Qwen3 14B is an open-source language model by Qwen. Features: 14b LLM, VRAM: 29.7GB, Context: 40K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.31.

Arxiv:2309.00071 Arxiv:2505.09388 Base model:finetune:qwen/qwen3... Base model:qwen/qwen3-14b-base Conversational Deploy:azure Deploy:sagemaker Endpoints compatible Qwen3 Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-14B

Qwen3 14B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Qwen3 14B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-14B
Base Model(s)	Qwen3 14B Base Qwen/Qwen3-14B-Base
Model Size	14b
Required VRAM	29.7 GB
Updated	2026-08-07
Maintainer	Qwen
Model Type	qwen3
Model Files	3.8 GB: 1-of-8 4.0 GB: 2-of-8 4.0 GB: 3-of-8 4.0 GB: 4-of-8 4.0 GB: 5-of-8 4.0 GB: 6-of-8 4.0 GB: 7-of-8 1.9 GB: 8-of-8
Model Architecture	Qwen3ForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	40960
Model Max Length	40960
Transformers Version	4.51.0
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	151936
Torch Data Type	bfloat16
Errors	replace

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Quantized Models of the Qwen3 14B

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
Qwen3 14B AWQ	71	2388031	10 GB
Qwen3 14B Unsloth Bnb 4bit	18	146117	11 GB
Qwen3 14B 4bit	5	80837	8 GB
Qwen3 14B GGUF	133	32233	3 GB
Qwen3 14B MLX 4bit	6	49536	8 GB
Qwen3 14B Bnb 4bit	6	8512	9 GB
Qwen3 14B 128K GGUF	25	2431	3 GB
Qwen3 14B 4bit DWQ 053125	7	465	8 GB

Best Alternatives to Qwen3 14B

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
...JA Qwen3 14B Agentic 256K V0.1	256K / 29.5 GB	28	8
SimpleChat 14B V1	195K / 29.5 GB	10	2
...0528DistillQwen 14B V27.3 200K	195K / 29.5 GB	9	5
...uct 21B Brainstorm20x 128K Ctx	128K / 84.1 GB	8	0
NousCoder 14B	80K / 29.5 GB	180	1
NousCoder 14B	80K / 29.5 GB	379	221
MiroThinker 14B DPO V0.2	64K / 29.7 GB	28	6
UIGEN T3 14B Preview	40K / 29.5 GB	24	22
Hermes 4 14B	40K / 29.5 GB	194693	169
ContextPilot 14B	40K / 29.6 GB	407	14

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than Qwen/Qwen3-14B.