Qwen3-0.6B vs Qwen2-0.5B-Instruct
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 September 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen3-0.6B | Qwen2-0.5B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 750 M | 490 M |
| Architecture | Qwen3ForCausalLM | Qwen2ForCausalLM |
| Context length | 40,960 | 32,768 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | — | 1 |
| Downloads 30d | 23,745,227 | 302,217 |
| Downloads all time | 218.8 M | 8.6 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2025-04-27 | 2024-06-03 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)
30.1 M250 K
Qwen3-0.6B
Qwen2-0.5B-Instruct
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Qwen2-0.5B-Instruct · fp16
1.7 GB / 24 GB
Qwen3-0.6B · fp16
2.3 GB / 24 GB