Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct vs Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct
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
meta-llama · B · Open weights
Params
1.2 B
Context
—
30d
1.3 M
llama3.2 licence · conditional
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct | Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Open weights | Open weights · also via API |
| Parameters | 1.5 B | 1.2 B |
| Architecture | Qwen2ForCausalLM | LlamaForCausalLM |
| Context length | 32,768 | 60,000 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | llama3.2 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Conditional |
| Languages | 1 | 8 |
| Downloads 30d | 5,017,129 | 1,331,481 |
| Downloads all time | 227.9 M | 109.8 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | Yes — accept licence |
| First seen on the Hub | 2024-09-17 | 2024-09-18 |
| API input price / 1M tokens | not on OpenRouter | $0.027 |
| API output price / 1M tokens | not on OpenRouter | $0.20 |
| Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens | not on OpenRouter | $0.23 |
| Cached input / 1M tokens | not on OpenRouter | — |
| AA Intelligence Index | not on OpenRouter | — |
| AA Coding Index | not on OpenRouter | — |
| AA Agentic Index | not on OpenRouter | — |
| Max output tokens | not on OpenRouter | 54,000 |
| API providers | not on OpenRouter | 1 |
| Tool calling | not on OpenRouter | No |
| Reasoning mode | not on OpenRouter | No |
API cost
Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct
$0.23
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)
12.1 M1.3 M
Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct
A overtook B on 17 Oct
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct · fp16
3.4 GB / 24 GB
Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct · fp16
4.1 GB / 24 GB