Qwen3-1.7B vs Qwen3-0.6B

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 24 October 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
2.0 B
Context
40,960
30d
4.1 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
PrimeIntellect · B · Open weights
Params
752 M
Context
40,960
30d
836 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen3-1.7B Qwen3-0.6B
Parameters 2.0 B 752 M
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM Qwen3ForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 40,960
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 4,136,449 836,153
Downloads all time 66.7 M 1.1 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2025-08-12

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 89 days (28 Jul – 24 Oct)

7.8 M200 K
Qwen3-1.7B Qwen3-0.6B

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-0.6B · fp16 2.3 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen3-1.7B · fp16 5.3 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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