Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct vs bloom-560m

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

Qwen · A
Params
1.5 B
Context
32,768
30d
7.4 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
bigscience · B
Params
560 M
Context
30d
502 K
bigscience-bloom-rail-1.0 licence · conditional

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct bloom-560m
Parameters 1.5 B 560 M
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM BloomForCausalLM
Context length 32,768
Licence apache-2.0 bigscience-bloom-rail-1.0
Commercial use Allowed Conditional
Languages 1 48
Downloads 30d 7,439,987 502,462
Downloads all time 218.7 M 26.4 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-17 2022-05-19

Download trend

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

14.2 M436 K
Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct bloom-560m

VRAM side by side

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

bloom-560m · fp16 1.8 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct · fp16 4.1 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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