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Qwen3-0.6B-Base

by Qwen Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B-Base

Qwen3 is the latest generation of large language models in Qwen series, offering a comprehensive suite of dense and mixture-of-experts (MoE) models.

Parameters596M
Context32,768
Weights1.2 GB
Licenseapache-2.0
AccessOpen weights
Monthly Downloads871.6k

Runs On

What it takes to serve Qwen3-0.6B-Base (596M parameters): the memory its weights need at each precision, and the cheapest way to rent enough data-center GPUs to hold them.

PrecisionWeightsMemory neededCheapest setupPer hourAlso fits
16-bit 1.2 GB 1.4 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
Vultr
$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00
8-bit 0.6 GB 0.7 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
Vultr
$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00
4-bit 0.3 GB 0.4 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
Vultr
$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00

Memory is the weights at that precision plus 20% for the runtime and a short context; a long context needs more. Prices are the lowest on-demand hourly rates in the SAVRN Index, read Sep 18, 2026.

SAVRN's Notes on Qwen3-0.6B-Base

We read the Base suffix before anything else. Qwen3-0.6B-Base is the pretrained checkpoint you post-train into an assistant, so the memory figures mean something different. A 16-bit copy takes 1.4 GB, 8-bit 0.7 GB, 4-bit 0.4 GB, and the cheapest slot we price is one 192 GB MI300X at $1.85 an hour, leaving nearly the whole card for training state, batches and the 32,768-token context. At 596 million parameters, fit is not the question; the split between training and serving is.

Apache 2.0 permits commercial use, so a derivative you train is yours to sell, provided the original notices stay attached and you state what changed. The page lists no reported evaluations and no SAVRN Index host prices, so pull the Qwen3 technical report at arXiv:2505.09388 and confirm the 32,768-token context suits your documents. Released April 28, 2025, updated July 26, 2025; get the later files.

Model Card

By Qwen, published under apache-2.0, revision da87bfb608c1.

Qwen3 Highlights

Qwen3 is the latest generation of large language models in Qwen series, offering a comprehensive suite of dense and mixture-of-experts (MoE) models. Building upon extensive advancements in training data, model architecture, and optimization techniques, Qwen3 delivers the following key improvements over the previously released Qwen2.5:

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Configuration

Architecture
Qwen3ForCausalLM
Context length (tokens)
32,768
Layers
28
Hidden size
1,024
Feed-forward size
3,072
Attention heads
16
Key/value heads
8
Head dimension
128
Vocabulary size
151,936
RoPE base
1,000,000
Stored precision
bfloat16
Model type
qwen3

Identity and Version

Repository
Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B-Base
Publisher
Qwen
Task
Text generation
Modality
Text
Library
transformers
Parameters
596M parameters
Languages
Not stated by the source
Revision
da87bfb608c14b7cf20ba1ce41287e8de496c0cd
First published
2025-04-28
Last updated
2025-07-26

Files and Weights

10 files, 1.2 GB in total. The weights are 1 file totalling 1.2 GB in safetensors.

Weights1 file · 1.2 GB
Configuration2 files · 865 B
Tokenizer4 files · 11.5 MB
Documentation2 files · 14.3 KB
Repository1 file · 1.5 KB
Every file
FileTypeSizeSHA-256
model.safetensorsWeights1.2 GB cd2a512003e2
config.jsonConfiguration727 B
generation_config.jsonConfiguration138 B
LICENSEDocumentation11.3 KB
README.mdDocumentation3.0 KB
.gitattributesRepository1.5 KB
merges.txtTokenizer1.7 MB
tokenizer.jsonTokenizer7.0 MB
tokenizer_config.jsonTokenizer9.7 KB
vocab.jsonTokenizer2.8 MB

License and Download

License
apache-2.0
Access
Open weights, no gate
Download size
1.2 GB
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Released by Qwen through ModelScope. Read the license.

Built From

Memory Requirements

PrecisionWeights in memory
As published1.2 GB
16-bit1.2 GB
8-bit0.6 GB
4-bit0.3 GB

Weights only, from the published parameter count; the key-value cache and runtime add to this.

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Questions About Qwen3-0.6B-Base

How much GPU memory does Qwen3-0.6B-Base need?

About 1.4 GB at 16-bit and 0.4 GB at 4-bit: the weights (596M parameters) plus a working margin. A long context needs more.

What is the cheapest GPU to run Qwen3-0.6B-Base on?

At 16-bit, 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour; at 4-bit, 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour, at the lowest on-demand prices the SAVRN Index lists.

Can I use Qwen3-0.6B-Base commercially?

Yes. Qwen3-0.6B-Base is released under Apache License 2.0. The Apache License 2.0 is a permissive open-source license. It permits commercial use, modification and redistribution. It requires keeping the license and copyright notices and any NOTICE file, stating significant changes, and it includes an express patent grant from contributors.

What is Qwen3-0.6B-Base's context length?

32,768 tokens, from the maximum position embeddings in its published configuration.

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