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

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
1.5 B
Context
32,768
30d
5.0 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
google · B · Open weights
Params
2.6 B
Context
—
30d
193 K
gemma licence · conditional

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct gemma-2-2b
Parameters 1.5 B 2.6 B
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM Gemma2ForCausalLM
Context length 32,768 —
Licence apache-2.0 gemma
Commercial use Allowed Conditional
Languages 1 —
Downloads 30d 5,017,129 193,408
Downloads all time 227.9 M 26.1 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No Yes — accept licence
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-17 2024-07-16

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

12.1 M193 K
Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct gemma-2-2b

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-2-2b · fp16 12.4 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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