Qwen2.5-0.5B vs Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-DFlash

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

Qwen · A
Params
490 M
Context
32,768
30d
2.6 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
z-lab · B
Params
390 M
Context
262,144
30d
228 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen2.5-0.5B Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-DFlash
Parameters 490 M 390 M
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM DFlashDraftModel
Context length 32,768 262,144
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 2,599,813 227,605
Downloads all time 27.1 M 543 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-15 2026-04-17

Download trend

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

2.7 M222 K
Qwen2.5-0.5B Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-DFlash

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen2.5-0.5B · fp16 1.7 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-DFlash · fp16 @ 256K ctx 3.2 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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