Model reference · open weights
Qwen3 is an open-weight language model from Qwen, listed in the AxForge catalogue. AxForge can bring it up on EU-owned hardware for you on request — with the licence handled where one is required.
About
Qwen3-0.6B 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: - Uniquely support of seamless switching between thinking mode (for complex logical reasoning, math, and coding) and non-thinking mode (for efficient, general-purpose dialogue) within single model, ensuring optimal performance across various scenarios. - Significantly enhancement in its reasoning capabilities, surpassing previous QwQ (in thinking mode) and Qwen2.5 instruct models (in non-thinking mode) on mathematics, code generation, and commonsense logical reasoning. - Superior human preference alignment, excelling in creative writing, role-playing, multi-turn dialogues, and instruction following, to deliver a more natural, engaging, and immersive conversational experience. - Expertise in agent capabilities, enabling precise integration with external tools in both thinking and unthinking modes and achieving leading performance among open-source models in complex agent-based tasks. - Support of 100+ languages and dialects with strong capabilities for multilingual instruction following and translation. Model Overview Qwen3-0.6B has the following features: - Type: Causal Language Models - Training Stage: Pretraining & Post-training - Number of Parameters: 0.6B - Number of Paramaters (Non-Embedding): 0.44B - Number of Layers: 28 - Number of Attention Heads (GQA): 16 for Q and 8 for KV - Context Length: 32,768 For more details, including benchmark evaluation, hardware requirements, and inference performance, please refer to our blog, GitHub, and Documentation. [!TIP] If you encounter significant endless repetitions, please refer to the Best Practices section for optimal sampling parameters, and set the presencepenalty to 1.5. Quickstart The code of Qwen3 has been in the latest Hugging Face transformers and we advise you to use the latest version of transformers. With transformers<4.51.0, you will encounte
Summarised from the published model card. Read the full card on the HuggingFace links below.
Specifications
| Maker | Qwen |
|---|---|
| Type | Language models |
| Parameters (lead) | 752M |
| Context | 40k tokens |
| Variants | 10 |
| Runs with | transformers |
| Based on | Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B-Base |
| Released | 2025-04-27 |
| Popularity | 22.5M downloads / month |
| Likes | 1,558 |
| Licence | Open weights |
How it works
Variants
Open weights ship in several sizes and precisions. One page, all the variants — pick the one that fits your GPU. VRAM figures are estimates from model size.
| Variant | Params | Precision | VRAM | Fits 16 GB | Weights |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3-0.6B | 752M | BF16 | ~1.7 GB | ✓ | Weights ↗ |
| Qwen3-8B | 8.2B | BF16 | ~18.8 GB | ✓ | Weights ↗ |
| Qwen3-4B | 4.0B | BF16 | ~9.3 GB | ✓ | Weights ↗ |
| Qwen3-32B | 32.8B | BF16 | ~75.4 GB | — | Weights ↗ |
| Qwen3-1.7B | 2.0B | BF16 | ~4.7 GB | ✓ | Weights ↗ |
| Qwen3-30B-A3B | 30.5B | BF16 | ~70.2 GB | — | Weights ↗ |
| Qwen3-14B-AWQ | 14.8B | AWQ | — | ✓ | Weights ↗ |
| Qwen3-14B | 14.8B | BF16 | ~34 GB | ✓ | Weights ↗ |
| Qwen3-8B-AWQ | 8.2B | AWQ | — | ✓ | Weights ↗ |
| Qwen3-1.7B-Base | 1.7B | BF16 | ~4 GB | ✓ | Weights ↗ |
Using it via the API
Once AxForge deploys qwen3 for you, it answers on the OpenAI-compatible API — the same base URL and keys as every other model. (qwen3 below is illustrative; you get the exact model name on deployment.)
$ curl -sS https://api.axforge.ai/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $AXFORGE_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"model":"qwen3","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'
Licence
Open weights under apache-2.0 — commercial use is permitted. Deploy it on AxForge EU hardware on request. Read the licence ↗