Qwen3-1.7B vs Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.
Qwen · B · Open weights
Params
4.0 B
Context
262,144
30d
2.6 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen3-1.7B | Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507 |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 2.0 B | 4.0 B |
| Architecture | Qwen3ForCausalLM | Qwen3ForCausalLM |
| Context length | 40,960 | 262,144 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | — | — |
| Downloads 30d | 3,732,406 | 2,557,680 |
| Downloads all time | 68.4 M | 66.6 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2025-04-27 | 2025-08-05 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)
7.4 M2.5 M
Qwen3-1.7B
Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507
A overtook B on 12 Oct
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Qwen3-1.7B · fp16
5.3 GB / 24 GB
Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507 · fp16 @ 256K ctx
28.6 GB / 24 GB