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

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 20 September 2026.

Qwen · A
Params
750 M
Context
40,960
30d
23.0 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
google · B
Params
1.0 B
Context
30d
2.9 M
gemma licence · conditional

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen3-0.6B gemma-3-1b-it
Parameters 750 M 1.0 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM Gemma3ForCausalLM
Context length 40,960
Licence apache-2.0 gemma
Commercial use Allowed Conditional
Languages
Downloads 30d 22,967,391 2,941,458
Downloads all time 217.3 M 51.4 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No Yes — accept licence
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2025-03-10

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 55 days (28 Jul – 20 Sep)

30.1 M2.5 M
Qwen3-0.6B gemma-3-1b-it

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-0.6B · fp16 2.3 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
gemma-3-1b-it · fp16 2.8 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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