Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct vs Ilama-3.2-1B

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
hmellor · B
Params
1.2 B
Context
131,072
30d
381 K

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct Ilama-3.2-1B
Parameters 490 M 1.2 B
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM IlamaForCausalLM
Context length 32,768 131,072
Licence apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 6,560,475 381,239
Downloads all time 57.0 M 1.9 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-16 2025-07-22

Download trend

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

6.6 M367 K
Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct Ilama-3.2-1B

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
Ilama-3.2-1B · fp16 @ 128K ctx 8.9 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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