Qwen2-1.5B-Instruct vs VLM2Vec-Full

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 7 August 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
1.5 B
Context
32,768
30d
210 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
TIGER-Lab · B · Open weights
Params
4.2 B
Context
131,072
30d
199 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen2-1.5B-Instruct VLM2Vec-Full
Parameters 1.5 B 4.2 B
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM Phi3VForCausalLM
Context length 32,768 131,072
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1 1
Downloads 30d 210,398 199,363
Downloads all time 31.9 M 2.8 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-06-03 2024-10-08

Download trend

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

3.3 M199 K
Qwen2-1.5B-Instruct VLM2Vec-Full

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
VLM2Vec-Full · fp16 @ 128K ctx 19.6 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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