gpt2 vs Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B-Instruct

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 25 October 2026.

openai-community · A · Open weights
Params
140 M
Context
—
30d
20.1 M
mit · commercial OK
Qwen · B · Open weights
Params
494 M
Context
32,768
30d
145 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification gpt2 Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B-Instruct
Parameters 140 M 494 M
Architecture GPT2LMHeadModel Qwen2ForCausalLM
Context length — 32,768
Licence mit apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1 1
Downloads 30d 20,107,244 144,803
Downloads all time 948.8 M 14.5 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2022-03-02 2024-11-06

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (28 Jul – 25 Oct)

20.1 M144 K
gpt2 Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B-Instruct

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

gpt2 · fp16 1.1 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B-Instruct · fp16 1.7 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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