What are the hardware requirements for Qwen3 32B?

Qwen3 32B requires approximately 65.6 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 32B and how large is it?

Qwen3 32B is developed by Qwen, a model with 32b 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 32B?

Qwen3 32B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Qwen3 32B by Qwen — VRAM 65.6GB, 40K context

Name: Qwen3 32B
Author: Qwen

Qwen3 32B is an open-source language model by Qwen. Features: 32b LLM, VRAM: 65.6GB, Context: 40K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.34.

Arxiv:2309.00071 Arxiv:2505.09388 Conversational Deploy:azure Endpoints compatible Eval-results Qwen3 Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-32B

Qwen3 32B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Qwen3 32B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-32B
Model Size	32b
Required VRAM	65.6 GB
Updated	2026-07-16
Maintainer	Qwen
Model Type	qwen3
Model Files	4.0 GB: 1-of-17 3.9 GB: 2-of-17 3.9 GB: 3-of-17 3.9 GB: 4-of-17 3.9 GB: 5-of-17 3.9 GB: 6-of-17 3.9 GB: 7-of-17 3.9 GB: 8-of-17 3.9 GB: 9-of-17 3.9 GB: 10-of-17 3.9 GB: 11-of-17 3.9 GB: 12-of-17 3.9 GB: 13-of-17 3.9 GB: 14-of-17 3.9 GB: 15-of-17 3.9 GB: 16-of-17 3.1 GB: 17-of-17
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 32B

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
Qwen3 32B AWQ	136	1924946	19 GB
Erk 32B	0	796	65 GB
Qwen3 32B AWQ	1	35	19 GB
Qwen3 32B Bnb 4bit	7	60867	19 GB
Qwen3 32B GGUF	98	30475	7 GB
Qwen3 32B GPTQ Int4	4	9324	19 GB
Qwen3 32B Unsloth Bnb 4bit	15	6674	39 GB
Qwen3 32B 128K GGUF	27	2611	7 GB
Qwen3 32B 4bit	6	2436	18 GB
Qwen3 32B AWQ	3	1029	19 GB

Best Alternatives to Qwen3 32B

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
...ll Qwen3 32B Preview7 QAT 200K	195K / 65.8 GB	10	3
...ll Qwen3 32B Preview6 QAT 200K	195K / 65.8 GB	6	2
...ll Qwen3 32B Preview4 QAT 200K	195K / 65.8 GB	13	2
Qwen3 32B AWorld	128K / 65.8 GB	37	15
Qwen3 32B	40K / 65.8 GB	5411	15
OpenThinkerAgent 32B	40K / 65.8 GB	9022	9
...Only No Hallucination Sft Bf16	40K / 65.8 GB	247	1
ArcANE 32B RLVR	40K / 65.8 GB	413	1
ArcANE 32B SFT	40K / 65.8 GB	242	1
ArcANE 32B DPO	40K / 65.8 GB	241	1

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than Qwen/Qwen3-32B.