Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct vs Granite-4.2-3B-BE-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
taronaeo · B · Open weights
Params
3.0 B
Context
—
30d
144 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct | Granite-4.2-3B-BE-GGUF |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 1.5 B | 3.0 B |
| Architecture | Qwen2ForCausalLM | — |
| Context length | 32,768 | — |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | 1 | 12 |
| Downloads 30d | 5,017,129 | 143,923 |
| Downloads all time | 227.9 M | 144 K |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | GGUF |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2024-09-17 | 2026-10-18 |
Download trend
106 days of snapshots recorded — chart in 0 days.
227.9 M
Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct · all-time downloads
144 K
Granite-4.2-3B-BE-GGUF · all-time downloads
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Granite-4.2-3B-BE-GGUF · Q4_0
3.3 GB / 24 GB
Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct · fp16
4.1 GB / 24 GB