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Qwen3-1.7B

by Qwen Qwen/Qwen3-1.7B

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

Parameters2B
Context40,960
Weights4.1 GB
Licenseapache-2.0
AccessOpen weights
Monthly Downloads3.8M

Runs On

What it takes to serve Qwen3-1.7B (2B 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 4.1 GB 4.9 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
Vultr
$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00
8-bit 2.0 GB 2.4 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
Vultr
$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00
4-bit 1.0 GB 1.2 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 Qwen3-1.7B

Where does a text generator with 2B parameters belong in a facility we run? On a card that is already busy. At 4-bit it needs 1.2 GB of memory; at 16-bit, nothing quantized, 4.9 GB. The cheapest listed setup is one MI300X with 192 GB at $1.85 an hour on-demand, so we treat a footprint this small as a tenant, not a workload: it rides beside bigger jobs and adds nothing to the hardware bill.

Apache 2.0 allows commercial use, modification and redistribution; keep the license and copyright notices, state significant changes, and a fine-tune can ship to customers. Context is 40,960 tokens, what it holds in one pass. This checkpoint is derived from Qwen3-1.7B-Base, so a team planning its own instruction tuning starts from the base. No Index host sells it by the token, so the card price is the only price.

Model Card

By Qwen, published under apache-2.0, revision 70d244cc86cc.

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. Built upon extensive training, Qwen3 delivers groundbreaking advancements in reasoning, instruction-following, agent capabilities, and multilingual support, with the following key features:

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Configuration

Architecture
Qwen3ForCausalLM
Context length (tokens)
40,960
Layers
28
Hidden size
2,048
Feed-forward size
6,144
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/Qwen3-1.7B
Publisher
Qwen
Task
Text generation
Modality
Text
Library
transformers
Parameters
2B parameters
Languages
Not stated by the source
Revision
70d244cc86ccca08cf5af4e1e306ecf908b1ad5e
First published
2025-04-27
Last updated
2025-07-26

Files and Weights

12 files, 4.1 GB in total. The weights are 2 files totalling 4.1 GB in safetensors.

Weights2 files · 4.1 GB
Configuration3 files · 26.6 KB
Tokenizer4 files · 15.9 MB
Documentation2 files · 25.3 KB
Repository1 file · 1.6 KB
Every file
FileTypeSizeSHA-256
model-00001-of-00002.safetensorsWeights3.4 GB 169ad53ec313
model-00002-of-00002.safetensorsWeights622.3 MB 912becff8d60
config.jsonConfiguration726 B
generation_config.jsonConfiguration239 B
model.safetensors.index.jsonConfiguration25.6 KB
LICENSEDocumentation11.3 KB
README.mdDocumentation14.0 KB
.gitattributesRepository1.6 KB
merges.txtTokenizer1.7 MB
tokenizer.jsonTokenizer11.4 MB aeb13307a71a
tokenizer_config.jsonTokenizer9.7 KB
vocab.jsonTokenizer2.8 MB

License and Download

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

Built From

Memory Requirements

PrecisionWeights in memory
As published4.1 GB
16-bit4.1 GB
8-bit2.0 GB
4-bit1.0 GB

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

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Questions About Qwen3-1.7B

How much GPU memory does Qwen3-1.7B need?

About 4.9 GB at 16-bit and 1.2 GB at 4-bit: the weights (2B parameters) plus a working margin. A long context needs more.

What is the cheapest GPU to run Qwen3-1.7B 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 Qwen3-1.7B commercially?

Yes. Qwen3-1.7B 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 Qwen3-1.7B's context length?

40,960 tokens, from the maximum position embeddings in its published configuration.

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