Qwen3-0.6B vs phi-2

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
microsoft · B
Params
2.8 B
Context
2,048
30d
771 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen3-0.6B phi-2
Parameters 750 M 2.8 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM PhiForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 2,048
Licence apache-2.0 mit
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 29,699,637 771,396
Downloads all time 180.6 M 21.5 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2023-12-13

Download trend

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

29.7 M738 K
Qwen3-0.6B phi-2

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-0.6B · fp16 2.3 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
phi-2 · fp16 7.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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