Qwen3-1.7B vs Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct-AWQ

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
2.0 B
Context
40,960
30d
3.7 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Qwen · B · Open weights
Params
1.8 B
Context
32,768
30d
195 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-1.7B Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct-AWQ
Parameters 2.0 B 1.8 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM Qwen2ForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 32,768
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — 1
Downloads 30d 3,732,406 194,969
Downloads all time 68.4 M 6.6 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2024-09-17

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

7.4 M195 K
Qwen3-1.7B Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct-AWQ

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct-AWQ · fp16 2.5 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen3-1.7B · fp16 5.3 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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