Qwen3-1.7B vs SmolLM3-3B

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
HuggingFaceTB · B
Params
3.1 B
Context
65,536
30d
872 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen3-1.7B SmolLM3-3B
Parameters 2.0 B 3.1 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM SmolLM3ForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 65,536
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 8
Downloads 30d 7,765,125 872,073
Downloads all time 56.3 M 4.8 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2025-07-08

Download trend

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

7.8 M806 K
Qwen3-1.7B SmolLM3-3B

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-1.7B · fp16 5.3 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
SmolLM3-3B · fp16 7.7 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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