Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct vs Qwen2.5-Coder-1.5B-Instruct

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 20 September 2026.

meta-llama · A
Params
1.2 B
Context
30d
7.0 M
llama3.2 licence · conditional
Qwen · B
Params
1.5 B
Context
32,768
30d
570 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct Qwen2.5-Coder-1.5B-Instruct
Parameters 1.2 B 1.5 B
Architecture LlamaForCausalLM Qwen2ForCausalLM
Context length 32,768
Licence llama3.2 apache-2.0
Commercial use Conditional Allowed
Languages 8 1
Downloads 30d 7,000,841 569,628
Downloads all time 103.7 M 7.5 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated Yes — accept licence No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-18 2024-09-18

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 55 days (28 Jul – 20 Sep)

10.4 M557 K
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct Qwen2.5-Coder-1.5B-Instruct

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
Qwen2.5-Coder-1.5B-Instruct · fp16 4.1 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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