Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct vs SmolLM-135M-Instruct-FP32
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
Specification comparison
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| Specification | Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct | SmolLM-135M-Instruct-FP32 |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 490 M | 135 M |
| Architecture | Qwen2ForCausalLM | LlamaForCausalLM |
| Context length | 32,768 | 2,048 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | — |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Unknown |
| Languages | 1 | — |
| Downloads 30d | 5,308,304 | 143,038 |
| Downloads all time | 75.6 M | 313 K |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2024-09-16 | 2025-07-31 |
Download trend
90 days of snapshots recorded — chart in 0 days.
75.6 M
Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct · all-time downloads
313 K
SmolLM-135M-Instruct-FP32 · all-time downloads
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
SmolLM-135M-Instruct-FP32 · fp16
1.1 GB / 24 GB
Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct · fp16
1.7 GB / 24 GB