Qwen2.5-0.5B vs Llama-3.2-1B
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 24 August 2026.
meta-llama · B · Open weights
Params
1.2 B
Context
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30d
477 K
llama3.2 licence · conditional
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen2.5-0.5B | Llama-3.2-1B |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 490 M | 1.2 B |
| Architecture | Qwen2ForCausalLM | LlamaForCausalLM |
| Context length | 32,768 | — |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | llama3.2 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Conditional |
| Languages | 1 | 8 |
| Downloads 30d | 1,171,698 | 477,238 |
| Downloads all time | 31.9 M | 60.2 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | Yes — accept licence |
| First seen on the Hub | 2024-09-15 | 2024-09-18 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)
2.6 M432 K
Qwen2.5-0.5B
Llama-3.2-1B
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Qwen2.5-0.5B · fp16
1.7 GB / 24 GB
Llama-3.2-1B · fp16
3.4 GB / 24 GB