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Qwen3 0.6B is an open-weights language model from Alibaba, released April 2025. Its published size is 0.75B parameters and a 33k-token context window. Licence: apache-2.0.
$ how it compares
The LLMs ranked either side of Qwen3 0.6B, out of 828 with a score, then more from Alibaba.
| # | model | score | where | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 707 | 34±1 | local | |||
| 708 | 34±2 | comparison only | |||
| 709 | 33±1 | local | |||
| 710 | 33±1 | local | |||
| 711 | 33±1 | local | |||
| more from Alibaba | |||||
| 18 | 78±1 | api $3.00/M +local | |||
| 34 | 76±1 | api $3.00/M | |||
| 37 | 75±1 | local | |||
$ what it's good at
agent tasks▁▁▃▆█▆▅▅▅▄▃▁ #266 of 300 * · 3.7% of its score · 2 tests
Beats Magistral Small 1.0 (2506), Llama 4 Scout (109B-A17B), Bielik 11B v2.3 Instruct here, though they rank higher overall.
| test | result | vs the others in its run | counts |
|---|---|---|---|
| BFCL V4 (December 2025 archive) | 23.9% ✎ | ▁▁▁▂██▅▅▆▂▂▂ beats 12/77 | 2.0% |
| BFCL v3 | 47.3% ✎ | ▁▁▁▁▁▃▅█▅▄▁▁ beats 29/114 | 1.7% |
coding▁▁▃▃▆██▇▆▄▃▁ #451 of 458 * · 9.3% of its score · 2 tests
Beats Molmo 7B-D (0924), DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B here, though they rank higher overall. Trails Phi-1 (1.3B), OpenAssistant SFT-4 Pythia 12B, Falcon3 1B Instruct here, though they rank lower overall.
| test | result | vs the others in its run | counts |
|---|---|---|---|
| HumanEval+ | 14.8% ✎ | ▃·······▂·▂█ beats 0/6 | 6.4% |
| LiveCodeBench v3 | 34.4% ✎ | ▃▃·····▃·▃·█ beats 1/6 | 2.9% |
chat & writing▁▁▁▃▅▄▅█▆▆▇▃ #301 of 393 * · 4.0% of its score · 1 test
Beats Ministral 3 14B Reasoning 2512, Gemma 4 E4B, OpenThinker3 7B here, though they rank higher overall. Trails LFM2 350M, Gemma 3 1B, Flan-T5 XXL here, though they rank lower overall.
| test | result | vs the others in its run | counts |
|---|---|---|---|
| IFEval (aggregation unspecified) +1 | 62.3% ✎ | ▄▄·····█▄▄·▄ beats 1/6 | 4.0% |
math▁▂▃▅▆▅▄█▄▁▁▁ #327 of 398 · 26% of its score · 4 tests
Beats GPT-3.5 Turbo (0125), Qwen2-VL 7B Instruct, DBRX Instruct here, though they rank higher overall.
other tests14 not in a task · 56% of its score
| test | result | vs the others in its run | counts |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU +1 | 55.8% ✎ | ▄···▄··█··▄█ beats 0/6 | 15% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 41.5% ✎ | ▄·····▄·▄·██ beats 0/6 | 14% |
| GPQA (subset unspecified) +1 | 27.2% ✎ | ▃······▃·▅·█ beats 0/6 | 4.6% |
| MMMLU | 30.8% ✎ | ▄···▄·▄▄··▄█ beats 0/6 | 3.5% |
| Open Persian LLM Leaderboard v2 average (21 tasks) | 36.3% ✎ | ▂▄▂▃█▄▃▆▃▅▂▂ beats 7/81 | 3.4% |
| IFBench (aggregation unspecified) | 19.8% ✎ | ▄▄·▄····▄·█▄ beats 3/6 | 3.2% |
| BRIDGE clinical text, zero-shot average (87 tasks) | 20.4% ✎ | ▁▁▁▁▁▃▂▃▄▆█▃ beats 11/97 | 2.9% |
| ZebraLogic | 29.8% ✎ | █▄····▄·▄·▄▄ beats 0/6 | 2.3% |
6 more tests
| test | result | vs the others in its run | counts |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open PT-LLM Leaderboard average (9 Portuguese tasks) | 50.3% ✎ | ▃▁▁▁▁▁▁▃▂█▅▁ beats 68/276 | 1.5% |
| KINA (Knowledge Index of Noah's Ark) accuracy, 899 ten-option items | 14.5% ✎ | ▃▁▂▁▃▄█▆▄▅▂▃ beats 0/39 | 1.5% |
| AraGen-v3 3C3H score (Inception, Claude Sonnet 4 judge) | 1.6% ✎ | ▁▃·▁▂▂▄█▄▅▄▄ beats 1/66 | 1.4% |
| EuroEval Life in the UK (English knowledge MC), test split, 5-shot, accuracy | 61.9% ✎ | ▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▃▄█▄▃ beats 32/146 | 1.3% |
| Vectara hallucination leaderboard, 2025 dataset (HHEM-2.3, factual consistency rate) | 96.3% ✎ | ▁▁▂▃▄▄█▆▃▂▂▁ beats 91/140 | 1.0% |
| EuroEval HellaSwag (English), test split, 5-shot generative MC, accuracy | 38.6% ✎ | ▃·▁▁▂▃▂▅█▇▄▁ beats 19/100 | 0.9% |
$ where to run it
llama.cpp · recommended
version
- Install llama.cpp · Homebrew and winget installs name the commands llama-cli and llama-server instead.macOS / Linux
curl -LsSf https://llama.app/install.sh | shWindowsirm https://llama.app/install.ps1 | iex - Run Qwen3 0.6B · needs ~0.5 GB · from huggingface.co/lmstudio-communitychat in the terminal
llama cli -hf lmstudio-community/Qwen3-0.6B-GGUF:Q4_K_M - Or start a local server and open the address it prints (http://localhost:9931)
llama serve -hf lmstudio-community/Qwen3-0.6B-GGUF:Q4_K_M
LM Studio
version
- Install LM Studio · Open the app once before using the lms command.
- Run Qwen3 0.6B · needs ~0.5 GB · from huggingface.co/lmstudio-community
- Or download it in the terminal
lms get https://huggingface.co/lmstudio-community/Qwen3-0.6B-GGUF@Q4_K_M -y - Then run lms ls to see its name, and lms chat followed by that name
Ollama
version
- Install Ollama
download it (macOS / Windows) ↗
Linuxcurl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh - Run Qwen3 0.6B · needs ~0.95 GB · from ollama.comchat in the terminal
ollama run qwen3:0.6b
MLX (Mac)
version
- Install MLX (Mac) · Apple silicon Macs only, text only.with uv
uv tool install mlx-lmorpip install mlx-lm - Run Qwen3 0.6B · needs ~0.3 GB, Mac only · from huggingface.co/lmstudio-communitychat in the terminal
mlx_lm.chat --model lmstudio-community/Qwen3-0.6B-MLX-4bit - Or start an OpenAI-compatible server at http://localhost:8080/v1
mlx_lm.server --model lmstudio-community/Qwen3-0.6B-MLX-4bit
Official weights and documentation: huggingface.co/Qwen ↗
$ how the score was worked out · Olmo 3 51%, LiquidAI/LFM2-1.2B model card 31%, Berkeley Function Calling Lea… 4% and 7 more
Each result implies a score on its own, after adjusting for how hard its test is and who ran it. The score is their weighted average, with a small pull toward the middle for thinly tested models. Each test's weight is its counts column above; here it's added up by who ran the tests. How it works
$ published speed measurements · 19
Reference results for the hardware, engine and settings below. They aren't verified speeds of the downloads above or predictions for your machine.
| AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 (Strix Halo), Radeon 8060S iGPU; Beelink GTR9 Pro 128GB | Q8_0 | 208.73 tok/s | llama.cpp 32e789fdf (build_number 10046 as recorded), ROCm/HIP · llama-bench; tg128; 128 generated tokens; context depth 0; n_prompt=0 row; n_batch=2048; n_ubatch=512; flash_attn=-1; type_k=f16; type_v=f16; n_gpu_layers=999; threads=16; one sequence Author's own llama-bench CSV row (avg_ts mean over repetitions, stddev_ts retained). GPU string as recorded: Radeon 8060S Graphics. Unified memory; the guide reports ~124GiB OS-visible. Kernel/Mesa/power profile per the run folder notes. Not prompt processing or multi-request throughput. Curated in the guide's data/benchmarks.csv line 9 (2026-07-16, measured-local): Official b10046 ROCm/HIP historical allocation sentinel. Full 120124MiB free UMA was detected and a CPU-heavy smoke logged ROCm_Host model output and compute buffers without HSA_OVERRIDE_GFX_VERSION. Open issue 26209 and PR 25863 mean this tiny smoke does not qualify long-context multimodal multi-slot or practical-model correctness. Requires the existing Ollama ROCm library path; not a speed headline or Vulkan comparison. | source ↗ |
| NVIDIA DGX Spark (GB10) | BF16 | 119.4 tok/s | llama.cpp (CUDA build, GGUF BF16 weights; version not stated) · chat split (OpenOrca + CNN/DailyMail, 21-3.5K input tokens); SiliconBench DGX Spark reference track (--platform dgxspark); identical prompts and concurrency grid as the Apple track; n=100 per level; concurrency 1; output throughput = generated tokens / sweep wall time (includes prefill); runs of 2026-07-03 to 2026-07-05 All cells in this table completed 100/100 requests. | source ↗ |
| NVIDIA DGX Spark (GB10) | BF16 | 103.3 tok/s | vLLM (CUDA, Safetensors BF16; version not stated) · chat split (OpenOrca + CNN/DailyMail, 21-3.5K input tokens); SiliconBench DGX Spark reference track (--platform dgxspark); identical prompts and concurrency grid as the Apple track; n=100 per level; concurrency 1; output throughput = generated tokens / sweep wall time (includes prefill); runs of 2026-07-03 to 2026-07-05 All cells in this table completed 100/100 requests. | source ↗ |
| NVIDIA DGX Spark (GB10) | BF16 | 106.8 tok/s | SGLang (CUDA, Safetensors BF16; version not stated) · chat split (OpenOrca + CNN/DailyMail, 21-3.5K input tokens); SiliconBench DGX Spark reference track (--platform dgxspark); identical prompts and concurrency grid as the Apple track; n=100 per level; concurrency 1; output throughput = generated tokens / sweep wall time (includes prefill); runs of 2026-07-03 to 2026-07-05 All cells in this table completed 100/100 requests. | source ↗ |
| NVIDIA DGX Spark (GB10) | BF16 | 55.3 tok/s | llama.cpp (CUDA build, GGUF BF16 weights; version not stated) · agent split (BFCL V3, Hermes, ClawsBench; 0.3K-8.9K input tokens; agent context raised to 16384 for llama.cpp/ollama/vllm-metal); SiliconBench DGX Spark reference track (--platform dgxspark); identical prompts and concurrency grid as the Apple track; n=100 per level; concurrency 1; output throughput = generated tokens / sweep wall time (includes prefill); runs of 2026-07-03 to 2026-07-05 All cells in this table completed 100/100 requests. | source ↗ |
| NVIDIA DGX Spark (GB10) | BF16 | 80.2 tok/s | vLLM (CUDA, Safetensors BF16; version not stated) · agent split (BFCL V3, Hermes, ClawsBench; 0.3K-8.9K input tokens; agent context raised to 16384 for llama.cpp/ollama/vllm-metal); SiliconBench DGX Spark reference track (--platform dgxspark); identical prompts and concurrency grid as the Apple track; n=100 per level; concurrency 1; output throughput = generated tokens / sweep wall time (includes prefill); runs of 2026-07-03 to 2026-07-05 All cells in this table completed 100/100 requests. | source ↗ |
| NVIDIA DGX Spark (GB10) | BF16 | 82.6 tok/s | SGLang (CUDA, Safetensors BF16; version not stated) · agent split (BFCL V3, Hermes, ClawsBench; 0.3K-8.9K input tokens; agent context raised to 16384 for llama.cpp/ollama/vllm-metal); SiliconBench DGX Spark reference track (--platform dgxspark); identical prompts and concurrency grid as the Apple track; n=100 per level; concurrency 1; output throughput = generated tokens / sweep wall time (includes prefill); runs of 2026-07-03 to 2026-07-05 All cells in this table completed 100/100 requests. | source ↗ |
| Apple M4 Pro (16-core GPU, 24GB) | Q4 GGUF (exact llama.cpp type not stated) | 297.4 tok/s | llama.cpp b9630 (June 2026), Metal backend, default settings · llama-bench-style tg128: decode throughput over 128 generated tokens; std dev generally below 3% for decode (paper); baselines at default settings Baseline runtime column from the BaseRT paper; BaseRT's own runtime column is not recorded. | source ↗ |
| Apple M4 Pro (16-core GPU, 24GB) | Q4 MLX (4-bit; group size not stated) | 343.6 tok/s | MLX v0.31.2 via mlx-lm, default generation settings · llama-bench-style tg128: decode throughput over 128 generated tokens; std dev generally below 3% for decode (paper); baselines at default settings Baseline runtime column from the BaseRT paper; BaseRT's own runtime column is not recorded. | source ↗ |
| Apple M4 Pro (16-core GPU, 24GB) | Q8 GGUF (exact llama.cpp type not stated) | 219.8 tok/s | llama.cpp b9630 (June 2026), Metal backend, default settings · llama-bench-style tg128: decode throughput over 128 generated tokens; std dev generally below 3% for decode (paper); baselines at default settings Baseline runtime column from the BaseRT paper; BaseRT's own runtime column is not recorded. | source ↗ |
| Apple M4 Pro (16-core GPU, 24GB) | Q8 MLX (8-bit; group size not stated) | 255.3 tok/s | MLX v0.31.2 via mlx-lm, default generation settings · llama-bench-style tg128: decode throughput over 128 generated tokens; std dev generally below 3% for decode (paper); baselines at default settings Baseline runtime column from the BaseRT paper; BaseRT's own runtime column is not recorded. | source ↗ |
| Apple M3 (8-core GPU, 16GB) | Q4 GGUF (exact llama.cpp type not stated) | 180.5 tok/s | llama.cpp b9630 (June 2026), Metal backend, default settings · llama-bench-style tg128: decode throughput over 128 generated tokens; std dev generally below 3% for decode (paper); baselines at default settings Baseline runtime column from the BaseRT paper; BaseRT's own runtime column is not recorded. | source ↗ |
| Apple M3 (8-core GPU, 16GB) | Q4 MLX (4-bit; group size not stated) | 182.3 tok/s | MLX v0.31.2 via mlx-lm, default generation settings · llama-bench-style tg128: decode throughput over 128 generated tokens; std dev generally below 3% for decode (paper); baselines at default settings Baseline runtime column from the BaseRT paper; BaseRT's own runtime column is not recorded. | source ↗ |
| Apple M3 (8-core GPU, 16GB) | Q8 GGUF (exact llama.cpp type not stated) | 99.8 tok/s | llama.cpp b9630 (June 2026), Metal backend, default settings · llama-bench-style tg128: decode throughput over 128 generated tokens; std dev generally below 3% for decode (paper); baselines at default settings Baseline runtime column from the BaseRT paper; BaseRT's own runtime column is not recorded. | source ↗ |
| Apple M3 (8-core GPU, 16GB) | Q8 MLX (8-bit; group size not stated) | 113.6 tok/s | MLX v0.31.2 via mlx-lm, default generation settings · llama-bench-style tg128: decode throughput over 128 generated tokens; std dev generally below 3% for decode (paper); baselines at default settings Baseline runtime column from the BaseRT paper; BaseRT's own runtime column is not recorded. | source ↗ |
| Apple M5 Pro (48GB; CPU/GPU core counts not stated) | Q4 GGUF (4-bit; exact llama.cpp type not stated) | 386.1 tok/s | llama.cpp b9960, Metal backend, default settings · tg128: token-generation throughput over 128 generated tokens; average of five repetitions; macOS (Darwin 25.4) Baseline runtime column from the BaseRT M5 paper; BaseRT's own column is not recorded. | source ↗ |
| Apple M5 Pro (48GB; CPU/GPU core counts not stated) | MLX 4-bit (group size not stated) | 398.1 tok/s | mlx-lm 0.31.3 (MLX 0.32.0), default generation settings · tg128: token-generation throughput over 128 generated tokens; average of five repetitions; macOS (Darwin 25.4) Baseline runtime column from the BaseRT M5 paper; BaseRT's own column is not recorded. | source ↗ |
| Apple M5 Pro (48GB; CPU/GPU core counts not stated) | Q8 GGUF (8-bit; exact llama.cpp type not stated) | 285.3 tok/s | llama.cpp b9960, Metal backend, default settings · tg128: token-generation throughput over 128 generated tokens; average of five repetitions; macOS (Darwin 25.4) Baseline runtime column from the BaseRT M5 paper; BaseRT's own column is not recorded. | source ↗ |
| Apple M5 Pro (48GB; CPU/GPU core counts not stated) | MLX 8-bit (group size not stated) | 295.5 tok/s | mlx-lm 0.31.3 (MLX 0.32.0), default generation settings · tg128: token-generation throughput over 128 generated tokens; average of five repetitions; macOS (Darwin 25.4) Baseline runtime column from the BaseRT M5 paper; BaseRT's own column is not recorded. | source ↗ |
$ quantization evidence · 12 measurements
How much of the full-precision result a quantized version kept, measured within one study. Rows from the same study share a table and aren't independent.
| precision | test | full → quantized | kept | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FP8 dynamic (weights FP8 per-channel static, activations FP8 per-token dynamic; llm-compressor QuantizationModifier) | OpenLLM v1 average of 6 tasks (MMLU (5-shot); ARC Challenge (25-shot); GSM-8K (5-shot, strict-match); Hellaswag (10-shot); Winogrande (5-shot); TruthfulQA (0-shot, mc2)) as published; lm-evaluation-harness + vLLM (backend vllm, max_model_len 8192, chat template, few-shot as multiturn) | 0.378 → 0.378 | 100.1% | source ↗ |
| FP8 dynamic (weights FP8 per-channel static, activations FP8 per-token dynamic; llm-compressor QuantizationModifier) | MMLU — published row 'MMLU (5-shot)' (OpenLLM v1 section); lm-evaluation-harness + vLLM (backend vllm, max_model_len 8192, chat template, few-shot as multiturn) | 0.428 → 0.423 | 98.8% | source ↗ |
| FP8 dynamic (weights FP8 per-channel static, activations FP8 per-token dynamic; llm-compressor QuantizationModifier) | GPQA Diamond — published row 'GPQA diamond' (Reasoning section); lighteval + vLLM, temperature 0.6, top_p 0.95, top_k 20, max_new_tokens 32768 | 0.293 → 0.258 | 87.9% | source ↗ |
| GPTQ INT8 (w8, group_size 128, sym, desc_act=false; GPTQModel 2.2.0; checkpoint Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B-GPTQ-Int8) | GPQA (subset not stated in card), thinking mode (Qwen-reported in quantized model card; harness, sampling and number of runs not stated) | 0.279 → 0.293 | 105.0% | source ↗ |
| GPTQ INT8 (w8, group_size 128, sym, desc_act=false; GPTQModel 2.2.0; checkpoint Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B-GPTQ-Int8) | GPQA (subset not stated in card), non-thinking mode (Qwen-reported in quantized model card; harness, sampling and number of runs not stated) | 0.229 → 0.232 | 101.3% | source ↗ |
| GPTQ INT8 (w8, group_size 128, sym, desc_act=false; GPTQModel 2.2.0; checkpoint Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B-GPTQ-Int8) | MMLU-Redux, non-thinking mode (Qwen-reported in quantized model card; harness, sampling and number of runs not stated) | 0.446 → 0.449 | 100.7% | source ↗ |
| GPTQ INT8 (w8, group_size 128, sym, desc_act=false; GPTQModel 2.2.0; checkpoint Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B-GPTQ-Int8) | LiveBench 2024-11-25, non-thinking mode (Qwen-reported in quantized model card; harness, sampling and number of runs not stated) | 0.218 → 0.218 | 100.0% | source ↗ |
| GPTQ INT8 (w8, group_size 128, sym, desc_act=false; GPTQModel 2.2.0; checkpoint Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B-GPTQ-Int8) | LiveBench 2024-11-25, thinking mode (Qwen-reported in quantized model card; harness, sampling and number of runs not stated) | 0.303 → 0.302 | 99.7% | source ↗ |
| GPTQ INT8 (w8, group_size 128, sym, desc_act=false; GPTQModel 2.2.0; checkpoint Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B-GPTQ-Int8) | MMLU-Redux, thinking mode (Qwen-reported in quantized model card; harness, sampling and number of runs not stated) | 0.556 → 0.538 | 96.8% | source ↗ |
| INT4 W4A16 (weight-only INT4, asymmetric, group 64; GPTQ, llm-compressor) | OpenLLM v1 average of 6 tasks (MMLU (5-shot); ARC Challenge (25-shot); GSM-8K (5-shot, strict-match); Hellaswag (10-shot); Winogrande (5-shot); TruthfulQA (0-shot, mc2)) as published; lm-evaluation-harness + vLLM (backend vllm, max_model_len 8192, chat template, few-shot as multiturn) | 0.378 → 0.362 | 95.8% | source ↗ |
| INT4 W4A16 (weight-only INT4, asymmetric, group 64; GPTQ, llm-compressor) | GPQA Diamond — published row 'GPQA diamond' (Reasoning section); lighteval + vLLM, temperature 0.6, top_p 0.95, top_k 20, max_new_tokens 32768 | 0.293 → 0.278 | 94.8% | source ↗ |
| INT4 W4A16 (weight-only INT4, asymmetric, group 64; GPTQ, llm-compressor) | MMLU — published row 'MMLU (5-shot)' (OpenLLM v1 section); lm-evaluation-harness + vLLM (backend vllm, max_model_len 8192, chat template, few-shot as multiturn) | 0.428 → 0.398 | 92.9% | source ↗ |
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