Qwen3-1.7B vs SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.
HuggingFaceTB · B
Params
1.7 B
Context
8,192
30d
212 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen3-1.7B | SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 2.0 B | 1.7 B |
| Architecture | Qwen3ForCausalLM | LlamaForCausalLM |
| Context length | 40,960 | 8,192 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | — | 1 |
| Downloads 30d | 7,765,125 | 212,482 |
| Downloads all time | 56.3 M | 2.6 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2025-04-27 | 2024-10-31 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)
7.8 M168 K
Qwen3-1.7B
SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct · fp16
4.5 GB / 24 GB
Qwen3-1.7B · fp16
5.3 GB / 24 GB