Qwen3-1.7B vs Qwen3-0.6B-GGUF

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
600 M
Context
40,960
30d
220 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen3-1.7B Qwen3-0.6B-GGUF
Parameters 2.0 B 600 M
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM —
Context length 40,960 40,960
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 3,732,406 219,608
Downloads all time 68.4 M 1.1 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS GGUF
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2025-05-05

Download trend

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

7.4 M205 K
Qwen3-1.7B Qwen3-0.6B-GGUF

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-1.7B · fp16 5.3 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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