Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct vs Qwen3-0.6B-GGUF
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
unsloth · B · Open weights
Params
600 M
Context
40,960
30d
143 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct | Qwen3-0.6B-GGUF |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 490 M | 600 M |
| Architecture | Qwen2ForCausalLM | Qwen3ForCausalLM |
| Context length | 32,768 | 40,960 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | 1 | 1 |
| Downloads 30d | 5,308,304 | 143,481 |
| Downloads all time | 75.6 M | 1.3 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | GGUF |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2024-09-16 | 2025-04-28 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 90 days (28 Jul – 25 Oct)
8.7 M142 K
Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct
Qwen3-0.6B-GGUF
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Qwen3-0.6B-GGUF · Q4_0
1.0 GB / 24 GB
Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct · fp16
1.7 GB / 24 GB