Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct vs bloom-560m

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 September 2026.

Qwen · A
Params
490 M
Context
32,768
30d
8.5 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
bigscience · B
Params
560 M
Context
30d
502 K
bigscience-bloom-rail-1.0 licence · conditional

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct bloom-560m
Parameters 490 M 560 M
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM BloomForCausalLM
Context length 32,768
Licence apache-2.0 bigscience-bloom-rail-1.0
Commercial use Allowed Conditional
Languages 1 48
Downloads 30d 8,490,785 502,462
Downloads all time 69.2 M 26.4 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-16 2022-05-19

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)

8.5 M436 K
Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct bloom-560m

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct · fp16 1.7 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
bloom-560m · fp16 1.8 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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