Qwen3-1.7B vs Llama-Guard-3-1B

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 September 2026.

Qwen · A
Params
2.0 B
Context
40,960
30d
3.6 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
alpindale · B
Params
1.5 B
Context
131,072
30d
264 K
llama3.2 licence · conditional

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen3-1.7B Llama-Guard-3-1B
Parameters 2.0 B 1.5 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM LlamaForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 131,072
Licence apache-2.0 llama3.2
Commercial use Allowed Conditional
Languages 8
Downloads 30d 3,619,571 263,590
Downloads all time 62.1 M 289 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2024-09-25

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)

7.8 M208 K
Qwen3-1.7B Llama-Guard-3-1B

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-1.7B · fp16 5.3 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Llama-Guard-3-1B · fp16 @ 128K ctx 7.4 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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