Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct vs DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B-MLX-4bit
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 September 2026.
lmstudio-community · B
Params
1.3 B
Context
131,072
30d
293 K
mit · commercial OK
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct | DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B-MLX-4bit |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 490 M | 1.3 B |
| Architecture | Qwen2ForCausalLM | Qwen3ForCausalLM |
| Context length | 32,768 | 131,072 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | mit |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | 1 | — |
| Downloads 30d | 8,490,785 | 293,318 |
| Downloads all time | 69.2 M | 5.6 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2024-09-16 | 2025-05-29 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)
8.5 M266 K
Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct
DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B-MLX-4bit
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct · fp16
1.7 GB / 24 GB
DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B-MLX-4bit · fp16 @ 128K ctx
8.6 GB / 24 GB