pythia-160m vs Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B-Instruct

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 25 October 2026.

EleutherAI · A · Open weights
Params
210 M
Context
2,048
30d
3.4 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Qwen · B · Open weights
Params
494 M
Context
32,768
30d
145 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification pythia-160m Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B-Instruct
Parameters 210 M 494 M
Architecture GPTNeoXForCausalLM Qwen2ForCausalLM
Context length 2,048 32,768
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1 1
Downloads 30d 3,397,668 144,803
Downloads all time 30.2 M 14.5 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2023-02-08 2024-11-06

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (28 Jul – 25 Oct)

3.5 M144 K
pythia-160m Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B-Instruct

VRAM side by side

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

pythia-160m · fp16 0.9 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B-Instruct · fp16 1.7 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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