Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct vs Ilama-3.2-1B
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.
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
Ilama-3.2-1B · fp16 @ 128K ctx
8.9 GB / 24 GB