Qwen3-0.6B vs DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B-MLX-4bit

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

Qwen · A
Params
750 M
Context
40,960
30d
29.7 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
lmstudio-community · B
Params
1.3 B
Context
131,072
30d
285 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-0.6B DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B-MLX-4bit
Parameters 750 M 1.3 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM Qwen3ForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 131,072
Licence apache-2.0 mit
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages
Downloads 30d 29,699,637 285,391
Downloads all time 180.6 M 5.1 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2025-05-29

Download trend

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

29.7 M266 K
Qwen3-0.6B DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B-MLX-4bit

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-0.6B · fp16 2.3 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B-MLX-4bit · fp16 @ 128K ctx 8.6 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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