Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct vs gpt-neo-125m

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.

Qwen · A
Params
490 M
Context
32,768
30d
6.6 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
EleutherAI · B
Params
150 M
Context
2,048
30d
350 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct gpt-neo-125m
Parameters 490 M 150 M
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM GPTNeoForCausalLM
Context length 32,768 2,048
Licence apache-2.0 mit
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1 1
Downloads 30d 6,560,475 350,047
Downloads all time 57.0 M 9.8 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-16 2022-03-02

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)

6.6 M326 K
Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct gpt-neo-125m

VRAM side by side

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

gpt-neo-125m · 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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