Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct vs TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat-v1.0

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 September 2026.

Qwen · A
Params
490 M
Context
32,768
30d
8.5 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
TinyLlama · B
Params
1.1 B
Context
2,048
30d
1.4 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat-v1.0
Parameters 490 M 1.1 B
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM LlamaForCausalLM
Context length 32,768 2,048
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1 1
Downloads 30d 8,490,785 1,438,408
Downloads all time 69.2 M 49.7 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-16 2023-12-30

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)

8.5 M1.4 M
Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat-v1.0

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct · fp16 1.7 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat-v1.0 · fp16 3.1 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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