Qwen3-1.7B vs Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-4bit

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
mlx-community · B
Params
1.2 B
Context
32,768
30d
258 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen3-1.7B Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-4bit
Parameters 2.0 B 1.2 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 3,619,571 258,304
Downloads all time 62.1 M 730 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2024-09-18

Download trend

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

7.8 M177 K
Qwen3-1.7B Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-4bit

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-1.7B · fp16 5.3 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-4bit · fp16 5.4 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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