Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct vs MiniCPM5-1B

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
openbmb · B
Params
1.1 B
Context
131,072
30d
926 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct MiniCPM5-1B
Parameters 1.5 B 1.1 B
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM LlamaForCausalLM
Context length 32,768 131,072
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1 2
Downloads 30d 13,977,170 925,545
Downloads all time 206.3 M 1.4 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-17 2026-05-21

Download trend

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

14.2 M626 K
Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct MiniCPM5-1B

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
MiniCPM5-1B · fp16 @ 128K ctx 5.5 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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