Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct vs gpt2-large

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
openai-community · B · Open weights
Params
810 M
Context
—
30d
908 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct gpt2-large
Parameters 1.5 B 810 M
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM GPT2LMHeadModel
Context length 32,768 —
Licence apache-2.0 mit
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1 1
Downloads 30d 5,017,129 907,711
Downloads all time 227.9 M 62.3 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-17 2022-03-02

Download trend

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

12.1 M794 K
Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct gpt2-large

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
gpt2-large · fp16 4.2 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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