Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct vs gemma-1.1-2b-it

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

Qwen · A
Params
1.5 B
Context
32,768
30d
14.0 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
google · B
Params
2.5 B
Context
30d
209 K
gemma licence · conditional

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct gemma-1.1-2b-it
Parameters 1.5 B 2.5 B
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM GemmaForCausalLM
Context length 32,768
Licence apache-2.0 gemma
Commercial use Allowed Conditional
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 13,977,170 209,209
Downloads all time 206.3 M 3.2 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No Yes — accept licence
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-17 2024-03-26

Download trend

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

14.2 M200 K
Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct gemma-1.1-2b-it

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct · fp16 4.1 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
gemma-1.1-2b-it · fp16 6.4 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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