Qwen3-0.6B vs Qwen3-0.6B-Base

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
Qwen · B
Params
600 M
Context
32,768
30d
749 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen3-0.6B Qwen3-0.6B-Base
Parameters 750 M 600 M
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM Qwen3ForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 32,768
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages
Downloads 30d 29,699,637 748,846
Downloads all time 180.6 M 6.1 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2025-04-28

Download trend

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

29.7 M730 K
Qwen3-0.6B Qwen3-0.6B-Base

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-0.6B-Base · fp16 1.9 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen3-0.6B · fp16 2.3 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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