Qwen3-1.7B vs SmolLM-1.7B-Instruct-quantized.w4a16

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.

Qwen · A
Params
2.0 B
Context
40,960
30d
7.8 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
nm-testing · B
Params
1.8 B
Context
2,048
30d
1.5 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-1.7B SmolLM-1.7B-Instruct-quantized.w4a16
Parameters 2.0 B 1.8 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM LlamaForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 2,048
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 7,765,125 1,506,527
Downloads all time 56.3 M 4.3 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2024-08-23

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)

7.8 M1.4 M
Qwen3-1.7B SmolLM-1.7B-Instruct-quantized.w4a16

VRAM side by side

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

SmolLM-1.7B-Instruct-quantized.w4a16 · fp16 2.7 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen3-1.7B · fp16 5.3 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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