Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct vs OpenELM-1_1B-Instruct

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 October 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
1.5 B
Context
32,768
30d
5.0 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
apple · B · Open weights
Params
1.1 B
Context
—
30d
184 K

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct OpenELM-1_1B-Instruct
Parameters 1.5 B 1.1 B
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM OpenELMForCausalLM
Context length 32,768 —
Licence apache-2.0 apple-amlr
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages 1 —
Downloads 30d 5,017,129 184,416
Downloads all time 227.9 M 27.7 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-17 2024-04-12

Download trend

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

12.1 M184 K
Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct OpenELM-1_1B-Instruct

VRAM side by side

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

OpenELM-1_1B-Instruct · fp16 3.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct · fp16 4.1 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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