Qwen3-1.7B vs Qwen2.5-Coder-3B-Instruct
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen3-1.7B | Qwen2.5-Coder-3B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 2.0 B | 3.1 B |
| Architecture | Qwen3ForCausalLM | Qwen2ForCausalLM |
| Context length | 40,960 | 32,768 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | other |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Unknown |
| Languages | — | 1 |
| Downloads 30d | 3,732,406 | 440,702 |
| Downloads all time | 68.4 M | 4.3 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2025-04-27 | 2024-11-06 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)
7.4 M179 K
Qwen3-1.7B
Qwen2.5-Coder-3B-Instruct
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Qwen3-1.7B · fp16
5.3 GB / 24 GB
Qwen2.5-Coder-3B-Instruct · fp16
7.8 GB / 24 GB