Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct vs llama-160m

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
JackFram · B
Params
160 M
Context
2,048
30d
251 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct llama-160m
Parameters 490 M 160 M
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM LlamaForCausalLM
Context length 32,768 2,048
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1 1
Downloads 30d 6,560,475 251,368
Downloads all time 57.0 M 4.8 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-16 2023-05-26

Download trend

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

6.6 M246 K
Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct llama-160m

VRAM side by side

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

llama-160m · fp16 1.2 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct · fp16 1.7 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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