Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct vs OpenELM-1_1B-Instruct

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 September 2026.

Qwen · A
Params
490 M
Context
32,768
30d
8.5 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
apple · B
Params
1.1 B
Context
30d
1.4 M

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct OpenELM-1_1B-Instruct
Parameters 490 M 1.1 B
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM OpenELMForCausalLM
Context length 32,768
Licence apache-2.0 apple-amlr
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 8,490,785 1,368,325
Downloads all time 69.2 M 27.6 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-16 2024-04-12

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)

8.5 M1.3 M
Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct OpenELM-1_1B-Instruct

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
OpenELM-1_1B-Instruct · fp16 3.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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