opt-125m vs Qwen2-0.5B-Instruct

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.

facebook · A · Open weights
Params
125 M
Context
2,048
30d
4.7 M
Qwen · B · Open weights
Params
490 M
Context
32,768
30d
238 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification opt-125m Qwen2-0.5B-Instruct
Parameters 125 M 490 M
Architecture OPTForCausalLM Qwen2ForCausalLM
Context length 2,048 32,768
Licence other apache-2.0
Commercial use Unknown Allowed
Languages 1 1
Downloads 30d 4,677,401 237,960
Downloads all time 222.9 M 9.1 M
Quantizations on the Hub — SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2022-05-11 2024-06-03

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

17.5 M238 K
opt-125m Qwen2-0.5B-Instruct

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen2-0.5B-Instruct · fp16 1.7 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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