Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct vs MiniCPM5-2B

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 September 2026.

meta-llama · A
Params
1.2 B
Context
30d
6.9 M
llama3.2 licence · conditional
openbmb · B
Params
2.5 B
Context
131,072
30d
421 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct MiniCPM5-2B
Parameters 1.2 B 2.5 B
Architecture LlamaForCausalLM LlamaForCausalLM
Context length 131,072
Licence llama3.2 apache-2.0
Commercial use Conditional Allowed
Languages 8 2
Downloads 30d 6,922,063 420,622
Downloads all time 103.8 M 421 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated Yes — accept licence No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-18 2026-09-06

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)

10.4 M207 K
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct MiniCPM5-2B

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
MiniCPM5-2B · fp16 @ 128K ctx 12.1 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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