Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct vs Llama-3.2-1B

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
meta-llama · B
Params
1.2 B
Context
30d
1.8 M
llama3.2 licence · conditional

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct Llama-3.2-1B
Parameters 1.5 B 1.2 B
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM LlamaForCausalLM
Context length 32,768
Licence apache-2.0 llama3.2
Commercial use Allowed Conditional
Languages 1 8
Downloads 30d 13,977,170 1,756,175
Downloads all time 206.3 M 57.4 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No Yes — accept licence
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-17 2024-09-18

Download trend

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

14.2 M1.7 M
Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct Llama-3.2-1B

VRAM side by side

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

Llama-3.2-1B · fp16 3.4 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct · fp16 4.1 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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