Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct vs gemma-3-1b-it-GGUF
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
lmstudio-community · B · Open weights
Params
1.0 B
Context
—
30d
187 K
gemma licence · conditional
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct | gemma-3-1b-it-GGUF |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 1.5 B | 1.0 B |
| Architecture | Qwen2ForCausalLM | — |
| Context length | 32,768 | — |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | gemma |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Conditional |
| Languages | 1 | — |
| Downloads 30d | 5,017,129 | 187,454 |
| Downloads all time | 227.9 M | 502 K |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | GGUF |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2024-09-17 | 2025-03-12 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)
12.1 M147 K
Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct
gemma-3-1b-it-GGUF
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
gemma-3-1b-it-GGUF · Q4_K_M
1.5 GB / 24 GB
Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct · fp16
4.1 GB / 24 GB