Qwen3-4B vs Qwen3-1.7B-GGUF

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

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
4.0 B
Context
40,960
30d
11.4 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
unsloth · B · Open weights
Params
1.7 B
Context
40,960
30d
224 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-4B Qwen3-1.7B-GGUF
Parameters 4.0 B 1.7 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM Qwen3ForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 40,960
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — 1
Downloads 30d 11,364,244 224,089
Downloads all time 92.8 M 966 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS GGUF
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2025-04-28

Download trend

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

12.6 M178 K
Qwen3-4B Qwen3-1.7B-GGUF

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-1.7B-GGUF · Q4_0 1.9 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen3-4B · fp16 10.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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