Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct vs h2o-danube3-500m-chat

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 25 October 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
490 M
Context
32,768
30d
5.3 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
h2oai · B · Open weights
Params
514 M
Context
8,192
30d
179 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct h2o-danube3-500m-chat
Parameters 490 M 514 M
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM LlamaForCausalLM
Context length 32,768 8,192
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1 1
Downloads 30d 5,308,304 179,005
Downloads all time 75.6 M 691 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-16 2024-07-04

Download trend

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

8.7 M156 K
Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct h2o-danube3-500m-chat

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
h2o-danube3-500m-chat · fp16 1.7 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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