Qwen3-1.7B vs transformer-1.3B-100B

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 25 October 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
2.0 B
Context
40,960
30d
4.1 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
fla-hub · B · Open weights
Params
1.4 B
Context
2,048
30d
166 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen3-1.7B transformer-1.3B-100B
Parameters 2.0 B 1.4 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM TransformerForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 2,048
Licence apache-2.0 mit
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — 1
Downloads 30d 4,115,815 166,282
Downloads all time 66.8 M 429 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2024-04-01

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (28 Jul – 25 Oct)

7.8 M162 K
Qwen3-1.7B transformer-1.3B-100B

VRAM side by side

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

transformer-1.3B-100B · fp16 3.7 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen3-1.7B · fp16 5.3 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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