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Qwen3-4B

Parameters

4B

Context Length

33K

Modality

Text

Architecture

Dense

License

Apache 2.0

Release Date

29 Apr 2025

Knowledge Cutoff

Mar 2025

API Pricing (per 1M)

Input: $0.03 · Output: $0.15

System Requirements

VRAM requirements for different quantization methods and context sizes

1,024 tokens

10.08 GB VRAM

Consumer

1x RTX 4090

24GB VRAM

Datacenter

1x NVIDIA A100

80GB VRAM

Apple Silicon

1x Apple M3 Max

128GB VRAM

32,768 tokens

15.54 GB VRAM

Consumer

1x RTX 4090

24GB VRAM

Datacenter

1x NVIDIA A100

80GB VRAM

Apple Silicon

1x Apple M3 Max

128GB VRAM

Architecture Diagram

Input TokensToken EmbeddingPosition: RoPEHidden: 4.1k · Context: 33K · Vocab: 151.9kx 40 layersRMSNormPre-AttentionGrouped-Query Attention48Q / 8KV headsHead dim: 128+RMSNormPre-FFNFeed-Forward NetworkSwishIntermediate: 9.7k+Final RMSNormOutput Logits

Evaluation Benchmarks

Rank

#173

BenchmarkScoreRank

Intelligence Index

Artificial Analysis
auto

0.09

Standard

0.07

227

251

Rankings

Overall Rank

#173

Coding Rank

-

About Qwen3-4B

Qwen3-4B is a compact dense language model by Alibaba Cloud engineered with native dual-mode reasoning for mathematics, coding, and interactive dialogue. It supports dynamic thinking budget allocation across an extensible 131K token context window.

Technical Specifications

Attention

Attention Structure

Grouped-Query Attention

Attention Heads

48

Key-Value Heads

8

Attention Head Dimension

128

Position Embedding

ROPE

RoPE Theta

1,000,000

Sliding Window Attention

No

Sliding Window Size

-

Sliding Window Ratio

-

Linear Attention

-

Linear Attention Ratio

-

Normalization

RMS Normalization

Activation Function

Swish

Dimensions

Hidden Dimension Size

4,096

Number of Layers

40

FFN Intermediate Size (Dense)

9,728

Multi-Token Prediction Heads

-

Tokenizer

Vocabulary Size

151,936

About Qwen 3

The Alibaba Qwen 3 model family comprises dense and Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures, with parameter counts from 0.6B to 235B. Key innovations include a hybrid reasoning system, offering 'thinking' and 'non-thinking' modes for adaptive processing, and support for extensive context windows, enhancing efficiency and scalability.


Other Qwen 3 Models
Qwen3-4B: Specifications and GPU VRAM Requirements