Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct vs Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.
meta-llama · A · Open weights
Params
1.2 B
Context
—
30d
1.3 M
llama3.2 licence · conditional
Qwen · B · Open weights
Params
490 M
Context
32,768
30d
4.5 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct | Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Open weights · also via API | Open weights |
| Parameters | 1.2 B | 490 M |
| Architecture | LlamaForCausalLM | Qwen2ForCausalLM |
| Context length | 60,000 | 32,768 |
| Licence | llama3.2 | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Conditional | Allowed |
| Languages | 8 | 1 |
| Downloads 30d | 1,331,481 | 4,524,207 |
| Downloads all time | 109.8 M | 78.1 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | Yes — accept licence | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2024-09-18 | 2024-09-16 |
| API input price / 1M tokens | $0.027 | not on OpenRouter |
| API output price / 1M tokens | $0.20 | not on OpenRouter |
| Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens | $0.23 | not on OpenRouter |
| Cached input / 1M tokens | — | not on OpenRouter |
| AA Intelligence Index | — | not on OpenRouter |
| AA Coding Index | — | not on OpenRouter |
| AA Agentic Index | — | not on OpenRouter |
| Max output tokens | 54,000 | not on OpenRouter |
| API providers | 1 | not on OpenRouter |
| Tool calling | No | not on OpenRouter |
| Reasoning mode | No | not on OpenRouter |
API cost
Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct
$0.23
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)
9.3 M1.3 M
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct
Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct · fp16
1.7 GB / 24 GB
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct · fp16
3.4 GB / 24 GB