gemma-3-1b-it vs Qwen3-0.6B-Base

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.

google · A
Params
1.0 B
Context
30d
4.7 M
gemma licence · conditional
Qwen · B
Params
600 M
Context
32,768
30d
749 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification gemma-3-1b-it Qwen3-0.6B-Base
Parameters 1.0 B 600 M
Architecture Gemma3ForCausalLM Qwen3ForCausalLM
Context length 32,768
Licence gemma apache-2.0
Commercial use Conditional Allowed
Languages
Downloads 30d 4,749,309 748,846
Downloads all time 46.4 M 6.1 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated Yes — accept licence No
First seen on the Hub 2025-03-10 2025-04-28

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)

4.7 M730 K
gemma-3-1b-it Qwen3-0.6B-Base

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

Qwen3-0.6B-Base · fp16 1.9 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
gemma-3-1b-it · fp16 2.8 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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