Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct vs tiny_starcoder_py

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.

Qwen · A

Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct

Params

490 M

Context

32,768

30d

6.6 M

apache-2.0 · commercial OK

bigcode · B

tiny_starcoder_py

Params

160 M

Context

—

30d

249 K

Specification comparison

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Specification	Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct	tiny_starcoder_py
Parameters	490 M	160 M
Architecture	Qwen2ForCausalLM	GPTBigCodeForCausalLM
Context length	32,768	—
Licence	apache-2.0	bigcode-openrail-m
Commercial use	Allowed	Unknown
Languages	1	—
Downloads 30d	6,560,475	249,481
Downloads all time	57.0 M	1.3 M
Quantizations on the Hub	SAFETENSORS	SAFETENSORS
Gated	No	No
First seen on the Hub	2024-09-16	2023-05-15

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)

6.6 M246 K

Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct tiny_starcoder_py

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

tiny_starcoder_py · fp16 1.2 GB / 24 GB

✅ Runs comfortably

Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct · fp16 1.7 GB / 24 GB

✅ Runs comfortably

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