Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct vs SmolLM2-135M-Instruct
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 September 2026.
HuggingFaceTB · B
Params
130 M
Context
8,192
30d
1.5 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct | SmolLM2-135M-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 490 M | 130 M |
| Architecture | Qwen2ForCausalLM | LlamaForCausalLM |
| Context length | 32,768 | 8,192 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | 1 | 1 |
| Downloads 30d | 8,490,785 | 1,535,908 |
| Downloads all time | 69.2 M | 15.4 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2024-09-16 | 2024-10-31 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)
8.5 M1.3 M
Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct
SmolLM2-135M-Instruct
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
SmolLM2-135M-Instruct · fp16
0.8 GB / 24 GB
Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct · fp16
1.7 GB / 24 GB