Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct vs Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct-gptq-4bit

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
kaitchup · B
Params
3.8 B
Context
4,096
30d
185 K

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct-gptq-4bit
Parameters 1.5 B 3.8 B
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM Phi3ForCausalLM
Context length 32,768 4,096
Licence apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 13,977,170 185,117
Downloads all time 206.3 M 9.7 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-17 2024-04-25

Download trend

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

14.2 M177 K
Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct-gptq-4bit

VRAM side by side

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

Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct-gptq-4bit · fp16 3.6 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct · fp16 4.1 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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