Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct vs gemma-3-270m

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
google · B
Params
270 M
Context
30d
395 K
gemma licence · conditional

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct gemma-3-270m
Parameters 490 M 270 M
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM Gemma3ForCausalLM
Context length 32,768
Licence apache-2.0 gemma
Commercial use Allowed Conditional
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 8,490,785 394,664
Downloads all time 69.2 M 17.2 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No Yes — accept licence
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-16 2025-08-05

Download trend

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

8.5 M395 K
Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct gemma-3-270m

VRAM side by side

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

gemma-3-270m · fp16 1.1 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct · fp16 1.7 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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