Qwen3-0.6B vs SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct

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
HuggingFaceTB · B
Params
1.7 B
Context
8,192
30d
212 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-0.6B SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct
Parameters 750 M 1.7 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM LlamaForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 8,192
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 29,699,637 212,482
Downloads all time 180.6 M 2.6 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2024-10-31

Download trend

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

29.7 M168 K
Qwen3-0.6B SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-0.6B · fp16 2.3 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct · fp16 4.5 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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