Qwen3-1.7B vs MiniCPM5-2B-MLX
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 24 October 2026.
openbmb · B · Open weights
Params
2.5 B
Context
131,072
30d
548 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen3-1.7B | MiniCPM5-2B-MLX |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 2.0 B | 2.5 B |
| Architecture | Qwen3ForCausalLM | LlamaForCausalLM |
| Context length | 40,960 | 131,072 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | — | 2 |
| Downloads 30d | 4,136,449 | 547,635 |
| Downloads all time | 66.7 M | 696 K |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2025-04-27 | 2026-09-05 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 89 days (28 Jul – 24 Oct)
7.8 M194 K
Qwen3-1.7B
MiniCPM5-2B-MLX
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Qwen3-1.7B · fp16
5.3 GB / 24 GB
MiniCPM5-2B-MLX · fp16 @ 128K ctx
8.1 GB / 24 GB