Qwen3-1.7B vs Qwen3.8-27B-DFlash2

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
incoai · B · Open weights
Params
1.9 B
Context
262,144
30d
438 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-1.7B Qwen3.8-27B-DFlash2
Parameters 2.0 B 1.9 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM DFlash2DraftModel
Context length 40,960 262,144
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 3,732,406 437,556
Downloads all time 68.4 M 1.1 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2026-08-18

Download trend

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

7.4 M203 K
Qwen3-1.7B Qwen3.8-27B-DFlash2

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-1.7B · fp16 5.3 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen3.8-27B-DFlash2 · fp16 @ 256K ctx 14.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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