What are the hardware requirements for Qwen3 1.7B?

Qwen3 1.7B requires approximately 4 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 40K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Qwen3 1.7B and how large is it?

Qwen3 1.7B is developed by Qwen, a model with 1.7b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

Where can I download or evaluate Qwen3 1.7B?

Qwen3 1.7B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Qwen3 1.7B by Qwen — VRAM 4GB, 40K context

Name: Qwen3 1.7B
Author: Qwen

Qwen3 1.7B is an open-source language model by Qwen. Features: 1.7b LLM, VRAM: 4GB, Context: 40K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.33.

Arxiv:2505.09388 Base model:finetune:qwen/qwen3... Base model:qwen/qwen3-1.7b-bas... Conversational Deploy:azure Endpoints compatible Qwen3 Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-1.7B

Qwen3 1.7B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Qwen3 1.7B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-1.7B
Base Model(s)	Qwen/Qwen3-1.7B-Base Qwen/Qwen3-1.7B-Base
Model Size	1.7b
Required VRAM	4 GB
Updated	2026-07-17
Maintainer	Qwen
Model Type	qwen3
Model Files	3.4 GB: 1-of-2 0.6 GB: 2-of-2
Model Architecture	Qwen3ForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	40960
Model Max Length	40960
Transformers Version	4.51.0
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	151936
Torch Data Type	bfloat16
Errors	replace

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Quantized Models of the Qwen3 1.7B

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
Yuna 1.7B V0	1	43	0 GB
Qwen3 1.7B GPTQ Int8	7	517163	2 GB
Nanomind Security Analyst	4	564	1 GB
Qwen3 1.7B Gsm8k Sft	3	476	1 GB
Qwen3 1.7B GGUF	69	39955	0 GB
Qwen3 1.7B Unsloth Bnb 4bit	12	53710	1 GB
Qwen3 1.7B 4bit	6	14082	1 GB
Qwen3 1.7B Bnb 4bit	5	3227	1 GB
... Deepseek R1 0528 Distillation	3	167	4 GB
Qwen3 1.7B 4bit DWQ 053125	2	596	1 GB

Best Alternatives to Qwen3 1.7B

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Lucy 128K	128K / 3.4 GB	123	112
Polaris 1.7B Preview	128K / 3.4 GB	73	8
DictaLM 3.0 1.7B Instruct	60K / 3.4 GB	2842	1
DualMind TKD Agentic 1.7B	40K / 3.4 GB	1798	0
Atomight V2.5 1.7B	40K / 3.4 GB	1406	1
Qwen3 1.7B Base MED ChatVector	40K / 3.4 GB	204	1
... 1.7B Base MED ChatVector 0812	40K / 3.4 GB	49	1
Qwen3 1.7B Base MED ChatVector	40K / 3.4 GB	46	1
Qwen3 1.7B Base MED ChatVector	40K / 3.4 GB	44	1
Qwen3 1.7B Base MED ChatVector	40K / 3.4 GB	41	1