Qwen3-1.7B vs SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct

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
HuggingFaceTB · B · Open weights
Params
1.7 B
Context
8,192
30d
267 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 3,732,406 266,820
Downloads all time 68.4 M 3.4 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 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

7.4 M191 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
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen3-1.7B · fp16 5.3 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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