Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct vs Qwen3-0.6B
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 24 October 2026.
Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
490 M
Context
32,768
30d
5.3 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
PrimeIntellect · B · Open weights
Params
752 M
Context
40,960
30d
836 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct | Qwen3-0.6B |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 490 M | 752 M |
| Architecture | Qwen2ForCausalLM | Qwen3ForCausalLM |
| Context length | 32,768 | 40,960 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | 1 | — |
| Downloads 30d | 5,295,916 | 836,153 |
| Downloads all time | 75.4 M | 1.1 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2024-09-16 | 2025-08-12 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 89 days (28 Jul – 24 Oct)
8.7 M200 K
Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct
Qwen3-0.6B
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct · fp16
1.7 GB / 24 GB
Qwen3-0.6B · fp16
2.3 GB / 24 GB