Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct vs Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B-Instruct
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
Qwen · B · Open weights
Params
494 M
Context
32,768
30d
145 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct | Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 490 M | 494 M |
| Architecture | Qwen2ForCausalLM | Qwen2ForCausalLM |
| Context length | 32,768 | 32,768 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | 1 | 1 |
| Downloads 30d | 5,308,304 | 144,803 |
| Downloads all time | 75.6 M | 14.5 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2024-09-16 | 2024-11-06 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 90 days (28 Jul – 25 Oct)
8.7 M144 K
Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct
Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B-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
Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B-Instruct · fp16
1.7 GB / 24 GB