What are the hardware requirements for Qwen3 4B?

Qwen3 4B requires approximately 8.1 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 4B and how large is it?

Qwen3 4B is developed by willcb, a model with 4b 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 4B?

Qwen3 4B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Qwen3 4B by willcb — VRAM 8.1GB, 40K context

Name: Qwen3 4B
Author: willcb

Qwen3 4B is an open-source language model by willcb. Features: 4b LLM, VRAM: 8.1GB, Context: 40K, LLM Explorer Score: 0.18.

Arxiv:1910.09700 Conversational Endpoints compatible Qwen3 Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/willcb/Qwen3-4B

Qwen3 4B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Qwen3 4B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/willcb/Qwen3-4B
Model Size	4b
Required VRAM	8.1 GB
Updated	2026-08-01
Maintainer	willcb
Model Type	qwen3
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-2 3.1 GB: 2-of-2
Model Architecture	Qwen3ForCausalLM
Context Length	40960
Model Max Length	40960
Transformers Version	4.52.2
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	151936
Torch Data Type	bfloat16
Errors	replace

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Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
GRPO 4 70	256K / 8.1 GB	10	0
Qwen3 4B Instruct 2507	256K / 8.1 GB	3109972	911
FastContext 1.0 4B SFT	256K / 8.1 GB	5735	357
...2.5 Flash Lite Preview Distill	256K / 8.1 GB	31	1
SRA RiskGate 4B	256K / 8 GB	2662	1
Lightning 4B	256K / 8.1 GB	13	6
Qwen3 4B Thinking 2507	256K / 8.1 GB	291023	606
Mgi Assistant V1 Qwen3 4B	256K / 8.1 GB	669	1
FastContext 1.0 4B RL	256K / 8.1 GB	4559	61
Fable Traces	256K / 8.1 GB	140	210

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than willcb/Qwen3-4B.