Qwen3-1.7B vs TwIL-LM3

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

webAI-Official · B · Open weights

Params

3.1 B

Context

65,536

30d

260 K

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification	Qwen3-1.7B	TwIL-LM3
Parameters	2.0 B	3.1 B
Architecture	Qwen3ForCausalLM	SmolLM3ForCausalLM
Context length	40,960	65,536
Licence	apache-2.0	other
Commercial use	Allowed	Unknown
Languages	—	1
Downloads 30d	3,732,406	259,799
Downloads all time	68.4 M	937 K
Quantizations on the Hub	SAFETENSORS	GGUF, SAFETENSORS
Gated	No	No
First seen on the Hub	2025-04-27	2026-08-03

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

7.4 M179 K

Qwen3-1.7B TwIL-LM3

VRAM side by side

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

TwIL-LM3 · Q4_K_M 3.1 GB / 24 GB

✅ Runs comfortably

Qwen3-1.7B · fp16 5.3 GB / 24 GB

✅ Runs comfortably

TwIL-LM3 · fp16 7.7 GB / 24 GB

✅ Runs comfortably

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