Qwen2-1.5B-Instruct vs Qwen2.5-Math-1.5B

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 29 August 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
1.5 B
Context
32,768
30d
144 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Qwen · B · Open weights
Params
1.5 B
Context
4,096
30d
131 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen2-1.5B-Instruct Qwen2.5-Math-1.5B
Parameters 1.5 B 1.5 B
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM Qwen2ForCausalLM
Context length 32,768 4,096
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1 1
Downloads 30d 144,329 130,824
Downloads all time 31.9 M 7.5 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-06-03 2024-09-16

Download trend

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

2.4 M131 K
Qwen2-1.5B-Instruct Qwen2.5-Math-1.5B A overtook B on 6 Nov

VRAM side by side

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

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

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