Qwen3-1.7B vs Kimi-K3-DSpark

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.

Qwen · A
Params
2.0 B
Context
40,960
30d
7.8 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
RadixArk · B
Params
2.3 B
Context
1,048,576
30d
798 K

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-1.7B Kimi-K3-DSpark
Parameters 2.0 B 2.3 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM DSparkDraftModel
Context length 40,960 1,048,576
Licence apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages
Downloads 30d 7,765,125 798,444
Downloads all time 56.3 M 798 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2026-07-27

Download trend

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

7.8 M168 K
Qwen3-1.7B Kimi-K3-DSpark

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-1.7B · fp16 5.3 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Kimi-K3-DSpark · fp16 @ 1024K ctx 48.6 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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