OpenELM-1_1B-Instruct vs Qwen3-1.7B-Base

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 28 September 2026.

apple · A · Open weights
Params
1.1 B
Context
—
30d
184 K
Qwen · B · Open weights
Params
1.7 B
Context
32,768
30d
629 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification OpenELM-1_1B-Instruct Qwen3-1.7B-Base
Parameters 1.1 B 1.7 B
Architecture OpenELMForCausalLM Qwen3ForCausalLM
Context length — 32,768
Licence apple-amlr apache-2.0
Commercial use Unknown Allowed
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 184,416 628,726
Downloads all time 27.7 M 8.9 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-04-12 2025-04-28

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

1.9 M184 K
OpenELM-1_1B-Instruct Qwen3-1.7B-Base

VRAM side by side

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

OpenELM-1_1B-Instruct · fp16 3.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen3-1.7B-Base · fp16 4.5 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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