Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct vs DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.

meta-llama · A
Params
1.2 B
Context
30d
10.4 M
llama3.2 licence · conditional
deepseek-ai · B
Params
1.8 B
Context
131,072
30d
619 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B
Parameters 1.2 B 1.8 B
Architecture LlamaForCausalLM Qwen2ForCausalLM
Context length 131,072
Licence llama3.2 mit
Commercial use Conditional Allowed
Languages 8
Downloads 30d 10,412,058 619,077
Downloads all time 92.8 M 20.4 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated Yes — accept licence No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-18 2025-01-20

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)

10.4 M589 K
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B

VRAM side by side

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

Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct · fp16 3.4 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B · fp16 @ 128K ctx 8.7 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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