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Qwen Apache 2.0 out 18 months ago

1.72B parameters, text in, text out, 32K tokens of context. 1 provider serves it.

Verified 2026-10-25 Rank #236 in LLMs · score 86.7 method v1 Sources 3 Downloads 30d 573.5k · #156 of 619 tracked

Changed this week: 2 new quantized builds on the Hub (51 in all).2026-10-24

Can I run it?1.0GB at INT4Estimatefits a 16 GB cardmethodCommunity: Qwen3-1.7B - VRAM, Specs & Benchmarks →
Can I use it?Apache 2.0Permissive; patent grantlicence file2026-10-24
Do people use it?573.5kdownloads, 30 days#156 of 619 we track · top 25%+2 likes, downloads +1% this week95 likesHugging Face2026-10-24

Worth reading

Picked by rule from 19 tracked pieces: the lab's own post, the most shared, a field report, the latest.

Most discussed · 490 HN pts

GPT-OSS vs. Qwen3 and a detailed look how things evolved since GPT-2

OpenAI released gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, their first open-weight models since GPT-2 in 2019.

  • A 2025 research paper confirms Dropout results in worse downstream performance in single-epoch regimes.
magazine.sebastianraschka.com 2025-08-10 490 HN pts · 97 comments 5.2k words about the Qwen3 family family

19 best of 19 tracked

The 4 picks above, plus these 15. Top is the radar's score: discussion, source authority and the lab's own posts, fading with age.

  1. ArticleQwen3-Coder-Nextqwen.ai · 2026-02-03 · official
  2. ArticleQwen3-Max-Thinkingqwen.ai · 2026-01-26 · official
  3. ArticleQwen3-TTS family is now open sourced: Voice design, clone, and generationqwen.ai · 2026-01-22 · official
  4. ArticleQwen3: Think deeper, act fasterqwenlm.github.io · 2025-04-28 · 869 HN pts · official
  5. ArticleQwen3-Coder: Agentic coding in the worldqwenlm.github.io · 2025-07-22 · official
  6. ArticleQwen3-Nextqwen.ai · 2025-09-12 · official
  7. ArticleQwen3-VLqwen.ai · 2025-09-23 · official
  8. CodeQwen3-Omni: Native Omni AI model for text, image and videogithub.com · 2025-09-22
  9. ArticleQwen3 1.7B (Reasoning) vs Qwen3 4B (Reasoning): Model Comparisonartificialanalysis.ai · undated
  10. ArticleQwen3 1.7B Fine-Tuning Guide – distil labsdistillabs.ai · 2026-08-02
  11. ArticleQwen3 Released: How Does It Stack Up?runpod.io · undated
  12. ArticleQwen3 1.7B | Open Laboratoryopenlaboratory.com · undated
  13. ArticleRun Qwen3-1.7B Base API (Easy Deployment & Flat-Rate Pricing)featherless.ai · undated
  14. Articleqwen3-1.7b: Tiny Model Benchmarks, Mobile Deployment Guide (2026) - TokenMix Blogtokenmix.ai · 2026-04-25
  15. Article[Paper Review] Qwen 3 Technical Report | Jaehun's Blogjaehun.me · 2025-07-26

Where to run it

Live hosted endpoints, cheapest first, USD per million tokens. Ties break on output price, then provider name.

#Cheapest live rowIn /1MOut /1MContextQuantSeen
1 Featherless — — — — Oct 25

All 1 provider →

Where it's used

Hugging Face does not say who downloads a model or with what. These are the proxies: API providers listing it, quantized builds, fine-tunes/adapters/merges, and Spaces that load it.

Served by 1 API provider; heavily run locally (51 quantized builds); a big base for builders (561 fine-tunes, adapters and merges).

  • As a service1Featherless
  • On own hardware51quantized builds
  • Built on561478 fine-tunes · 79 adapters · 4 merges
  • In apps25Hugging Face Spaces

Top Spaces running it: dqy08/InfoLens1 ♥ 22 · Ex0bit/qwen-scope-live ♥ 20 · Jellyfish042/Compression-Lens ♥ 4 · GiacomoDeLuca/orrery-demo ♥ 3

Will it fit?

Weights only, an estimate: leave room for the KV cache. Method

Fits a 16 GB card at INT4

About 1.0 GB at INT4, 2.1 GB at FP8, 4.1 GB at BF16: weights only, so leave room for the KV cache.

16 GB card64 GB Mac2×80 GB8×80 GBINT4: about 1.0 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)INT41.0 GBFP8: about 2.1 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)FP82.1 GBBF16: about 4.1 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)BF164.1 GB
16 GB card64 GB Mac2×80 GB8×80 GBINT4: about 1.0 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)INT41.0 GBFP8: about 2.1 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)FP82.1 GBBF16: about 4.1 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)BF164.1 GB

Estimate params × bytes per param × 1.2 · how we estimate

The story so far

Weights, every dated article, and repo commits on one rail.

4 dated articles and 9 repo commits so far

Teal is the weights (2025-04-28), amber triangles are 4 dated articles (each links to it), grey ticks are repo commits.

MayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOct2025-07-26: 1 repo commit2025-05-21: 1 repo commit2025-05-20: 1 repo commit2025-04-28: 6 repo commitsQwen3.5 122B and 35B models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computers · 2026-02-28Qwen3: Think deeper, act faster · 2025-04-28GPT-OSS vs. Qwen3 and a detailed look how things evolved since GPT-2 · 2025-08-10Qwen3 1.7B Fine-Tuning Guide – distil labs · 2026-08-02Weights 2025-04-28 · 2025-04-28Weights 2025-04-28now · 1 provider
MayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOct2025-07-26: 1 repo commit2025-05-21: 1 repo commit2025-05-20: 1 repo commit2025-04-28: 6 repo commitsQwen3.5 122B and 35B models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computers · 2026-02-28Qwen3: Think deeper, act faster · 2025-04-28GPT-OSS vs. Qwen3 and a detailed look how things evolved since GPT-2 · 2025-08-10Qwen3 1.7B Fine-Tuning Guide – distil labs · 2026-08-02Weights 2025-04-28 · 2025-04-28Weights 2025-04-28now · 1 provider

What people built on it

612 derivatives on the Hub. Which build to run, by runtime: the most downloaded in each class.

612 derivatives on the Hub, most of them fine-tunes

From the Hugging Face model tree; quantized builds in teal, fine-tunes, merges and adapters in greys.

51 quantized (Hugging Face model tree)478 fine-tunes (Hugging Face model tree)4 merges (Hugging Face model tree)79 adapters (Hugging Face model tree)51 quantized478 fine-tunes4 merges79 adapters
51 quantized (Hugging Face model tree)478 fine-tunes (Hugging Face model tree)4 merges (Hugging Face model tree)79 adapters (Hugging Face model tree)51 quantized478 fine-tunes4 merges79 adapters

All variants →

Reference

Everything else, folded: the full tables, every source.

What the card says

1 cited sentence

Summary generated, cited

The model architecture uses 28 layers and supports a context length of 32,768 tokens.[1][2]

  1. “Number of Layers: 28”
  2. “Context Length: 32,768”

Generated 2026-10-07 15:05 UTC by parasail-gemma-4-26b-a4b-it; each numeral points at the fact it rests on. Not a verdict.

Use-case evidence

5 use cases

What it is good at 5 use cases

Labels are evidence, not verdicts: measured a third-party leaderboard row for this model; author-reported a number the model author published in the card or eval files; structural a deterministic signal from the name, config or chat template, or a decision-model estimate. Each chip links to its source. All use cases.

Facts

20 fields

Listed in LLMs

Facts

Pipeline tagtext-generation
Librarytransformers
ArchitecturesQwen3ForCausalLM
Model typeqwen3
Dtypebfloat16
Params by dtypeBF16: 1,720,574,976
Size bandS
MoEno
Context length32,768 (config.json max_position_embeddings)
PapersarXiv:2505.09388
LicenseApache 2.0 (apache-2.0)
Hub snapshot2026-10-25

Servability

vLLM · SGLang

Servability

vLLM: supported · Qwen3ForCausalLM · 7050ef881ff0835f6890a47db1859a24c65481d6SGLang: supported · Qwen3ForCausalLM · 773cb938fe9484a8f7e7e46fb1b1fe96412c59ed

vLLM registry (7050ef881ff0835f6890a47db1859a24c65481d6) · SGLang registry (773cb938fe9484a8f7e7e46fb1b1fe96412c59ed) · Matched by architecture class name against each project's registry on main; 'supported' means the architecture is registered, not that this checkpoint was tested.

Hardware fit

3 estimates

Hardware fit ESTIMATE

Weights-only memory for Qwen3-1.7B-Base: params × bytes/param × 1.2 overhead. KV cache and activations are extra. How this is computed.

BF16 (2 bytes/param)4.1 GB · Single GPU (<24 GB)
FP8 (1 byte/param)2.1 GB · Edge (<4 GB)
INT4 (0.5 bytes/param)1.0 GB · Edge (<4 GB)

Weights only (params × bytes/param × 1.2 overhead); KV cache and activations extra.

All variants

40 variants

Lineage

Original model Family: Qwen/Qwen3 612 derivatives on the Hub

finetune: 478quantized: 51adapter: 79merge: 4

Top variants (40 shown, ranked by downloads)

Relation
Quant
Size
40 rows
Variant Relation Quant Params Band License Author Likes Downloads
PrimeIntellect/Qwen3-1.7B finetune — 2.03B M apache-2.0 PrimeIntellect 0 247.6k
unsloth/Qwen3-1.7B-Base finetune — 1.72B S apache-2.0 unsloth 8 158k
unsloth/Qwen3-1.7B-Base-unsloth-bnb-4bit quantized -bnb 1.76B S apache-2.0 unsloth 3 106.5k
OpenMOSS-Team/MOSS-TTSD-v0.5 finetune — 2.05B M apache-2.0 OpenMOSS-Team 54 93k
occ-ai/OCC-RAG-1.7B finetune — 1.72B S mit occ-ai 16 33.7k
unsloth/Qwen3-1.7B-Base-bnb-4bit quantized -bnb 1.76B S apache-2.0 unsloth 0 27.9k
miulab/Qwen3-1.7B-Usefulness finetune — 1.72B S — miulab 1 23.8k
jinaai/jina-vlm finetune — 2.48B M cc-by-nc-4.0 jinaai 125 16.1k
CSHaitao/LegalOne-4B finetune — 4.41B M mit CSHaitao 5 18.2k
QuantFactory/Qwen3-1.7B-GGUF quantized GGUF — — apache-2.0 QuantFactory 3 12.2k
Qwen/Qwen3-1.7B-MLX-4bit quantized MLX 1.72B S apache-2.0 Qwen 11 11.5k
Qwen/Qwen3-1.7B-MLX-8bit quantized MLX 1.72B S apache-2.0 Qwen 9 10.4k
mradermacher/Qwen3-1.7B-Base-i1-GGUF quantized GGUF — — apache-2.0 mradermacher 1 10.7k
Scicom-intl/Multilingual-TTS-1.7B-Base finetune — 1.85B S — Scicom-intl 6 9k
OpenMOSS-Team/MOSS-TTSD-v0.7 finetune — 2.05B M apache-2.0 OpenMOSS-Team 18 8.3k
Thrillcrazyer/Qwen3_1.7B_LoopUS finetune — 2.03B M apache-2.0 Thrillcrazyer 3 6.2k
Qwen/Qwen3-1.7B-MLX-6bit quantized MLX 1.72B S apache-2.0 Qwen 8 5.8k
Aratako/MioTTS-1.7B finetune — 1.75B S apache-2.0 Aratako 14 5.4k
Polygl0t/Tucano2-qwen-1.5B-Base finetune — 1.51B S apache-2.0 Polygl0t 3 5.8k
VLSP2025-LegalSML/qwen3-1.7b-legal-pretrain finetune — 1.72B S — VLSP2025-LegalSML 0 5.8k
CSHaitao/LegalOne-8B finetune — 8.20B M mit CSHaitao 9 5.2k
Qwen/Qwen3-1.7B-MLX-bf16 finetune MLX 1.72B S apache-2.0 Qwen 12 4.9k
Thinking-Space/Qwen3-1.7B-SFT finetune — 2.03B M other Thinking-Space 4 5.2k
malaysia-ai/Qwen3-1.7B-Multilingual-TTS finetune — 1.85B S — malaysia-ai 11 4.4k
mradermacher/Qwen3-1.7B-Base-GGUF quantized GGUF — — apache-2.0 mradermacher 1 4.5k
eulogik/Bharat-Tiny-LLM-v3 quantized GGUF 1.72B S apache-2.0 eulogik 6 4k
Mungert/Qwen3-1.7B-GGUF quantized GGUF — — apache-2.0 Mungert 0 4k
Qwen/SAE-Res-Qwen3-1.7B-Base-W32K-L0_50 finetune — — — other Qwen 14 2.6k
sds-ai/Yee-R1-mini-GGUF quantized GGUF — — apache-2.0 sds-ai 4 3.1k
Abner0803/Qwen3-1.7B-msmarco-text-100k-with_pseudo_queries finetune — 1.72B S — Abner0803 0 3.2k
heyalexchoi/qwen3-1.7b-math-grpo finetune — 1.72B S — heyalexchoi 0 3.1k
ofloxacin/qwen3-1b finetune — 2.03B M apache-2.0 ofloxacin 2 2.8k
OpenMOSS-Team/MOSS-TTSD-v0 finetune — 2.05B M apache-2.0 OpenMOSS-Team 28 1.3k
bluelightai/clt-qwen3-1.7b-base-20k finetune — — — apache-2.0 bluelightai 1 2.5k
chartreuse-verte/prose-rewriter-1.7b-v1.2 quantized GGUF 2.03B M agpl-3.0 chartreuse-verte 0 2.4k
YixuanEvenXu/Qwen3-1.7B-Base-HIP-adapter adapter — — — apache-2.0 YixuanEvenXu 0 2.3k
ericoh929/qwen3-1.7b-lamini-qlora-instruction-tuned adapter — 1.72B S cc-by-nc-4.0 ericoh929 5 1.9k
Qwen/SAE-Res-Qwen3-1.7B-Base-W32K-L0_100 finetune — — — other Qwen 9 1.7k
DevQuasar/Qwen.Qwen3-1.7B-Base-GGUF quantized GGUF — — — DevQuasar 0 2k
ayushshah/Qwen3-1.7B-UltraChat-SFT finetune — 1.72B S apache-2.0 ayushshah 1 1.9k

Repository changelog

9 commits
changed in the last 7 daysOther: 2026-10-24all changes

Repository changelog 9 commits

DateCommitSHA
2025-07-26 Create LICENSE ea980cb
2025-05-21 Update README.md 2944ab5
2025-05-20 update tokenizer_config.json 912d272
2025-04-28 Update README.md a0fbe33
2025-04-28 Update tokenizer_config.json 36be17a
2025-04-28 Upload merges.txt 8b1d62d
2025-04-28 Update README.md 4e9b56a
2025-04-28 Upload folder using huggingface_hub 658b6ee
2025-04-28 initial commit db5b20d

All providers

1 provider · 1 endpoint

Where to run 1 providers · 1 endpoints

Hosted endpoints observed for Qwen3-1.7B-Base, sorted by input price (USD per million tokens). Each row names its observer and date; prices change daily, so check the source before quoting.

ProviderModel refContextQuant$/M in$/M outtok/sTTFTToolsStatusObserved
Featherless
hf
Qwen/Qwen3-1.7B-Base — — — — — — — live 2026-10-25

Articles and coverage

19 pieces

Ranked by source signals (HN, Lobsters, authority domains, official posts) and recency. Summaries are generated from a stored copy of the article text; every sentence cites a span of that text, and nothing is shown that failed the citation check.

Official1

qwenlm.github.io2025-04-28officialauthorityHN front pageabout the Qwen3 familyHN 869 pts · 388 comments2,139 words
Qwen3 introduces Hybrid Thinking Modes, allowing users to toggle between step-by-step reasoning and rapid responses via computational budget control. The open-weight MoE model Qwen3-235B-A22B achieves performance similar to dense models while using only 10% of the active parameters. Pre-training utilized approximately 36 trillion tokens across 119 languages, with deployment supported by SGLang and vLLM.written, reviewed, cited
  • Qwen3-8B and Qwen3-14B models do not use tied embeddings, unlike smaller variants.
  • The pre-training pipeline includes a final stage extending context length to 32K tokens.

Analysis9

venturebeat.com2026-02-28HN front pageabout the Qwen3 familyHN 461 pts · 272 comments
magazine.sebastianraschka.com2025-08-10authorityHN front pageabout the Qwen3 familyHN 490 pts · 97 comments5,195 words
OpenAI released gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, their first open-weight models since GPT-2 in 2019. The 20B model can run on a consumer GPU with up to 16 GB of RAM, and the 120B model can run on a single H100 with 80 GB of RAM or newer hardware. The models utilize MXFP4 optimization to fit onto single GPUs.written, reviewed, cited
  • A 2025 research paper confirms Dropout results in worse downstream performance in single-epoch regimes.
artificialanalysis.aiauthority
artificialanalysis.aiauthority
distillabs.ai2026-08-02
runpod.ioabout the Qwen3 family
openlaboratory.com
apxml.com
featherless.ai
All coverage tracked for this model (19) — append-only, nothing is ever removed
TitleSourcePublishedFirst seenSignals
Qwen3 1.7B - Intelligence, Performance & Price Analysis | Artificial Analysisartificialanalysis.ai—2026-10-07exa
Qwen3 1.7B (Reasoning) vs Qwen3 4B (Reasoning): Model Comparisonartificialanalysis.ai—2026-10-07exa
Qwen3 Released: How Does It Stack Up?runpod.io—2026-10-07exa
Qwen3 1.7B | Open Laboratoryopenlaboratory.com—2026-10-07exa
Qwen3-1.7B - VRAM, Specs & Benchmarksapxml.com—2026-10-07exa
Run Qwen3-1.7B Base API (Easy Deployment & Flat-Rate Pricing)featherless.ai—2026-10-07exa
Qwen3 1.7B Fine-Tuning Guide – distil labsdistillabs.ai2026-08-022026-10-07exa
qwen3-1.7b: Tiny Model Benchmarks, Mobile Deployment Guide (2026) - TokenMix Blogtokenmix.ai2026-04-252026-10-07exa
Qwen3.5 122B and 35B models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computersventurebeat.com2026-02-282026-10-07hn
Qwen3-Coder-Nextqwen.ai official2026-02-032026-10-07hn
Qwen3-Max-Thinkingqwen.ai official2026-01-262026-10-07hn
Qwen3-TTS family is now open sourced: Voice design, clone, and generationqwen.ai official2026-01-222026-10-07hn
Qwen3-VLqwen.ai official2025-09-232026-10-07hn
Qwen3-Omni: Native Omni AI model for text, image and videogithub.com2025-09-222026-10-07hn
Qwen3-Nextqwen.ai official2025-09-122026-10-07hn
GPT-OSS vs. Qwen3 and a detailed look how things evolved since GPT-2magazine.sebastianraschka.com2025-08-102026-10-07hn
[Paper Review] Qwen 3 Technical Report | Jaehun's Blogjaehun.me2025-07-262026-10-07exa
Qwen3-Coder: Agentic coding in the worldqwenlm.github.io official2025-07-222026-10-07hn
Qwen3: Think deeper, act fasterqwenlm.github.io official2025-04-282026-10-07hn

Papers

1 paper

Papers 1

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Hub snapshot: 2026-10-25 · HF API: 2026-10-24 21:37 UTC · Providers: 2026-10-24 21:44 UTC · Articles: 2026-10-24 21:45 UTC · Summary: 2026-10-07 15:05 UTC · Last verified 2026-10-25

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