Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct vs Phi-3-vision-128k-instruct

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
microsoft · B
Params
4.2 B
Context
131,072
30d
238 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct Phi-3-vision-128k-instruct
Parameters 1.5 B 4.2 B
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM Phi3VForCausalLM
Context length 32,768 131,072
Licence apache-2.0 mit
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1 1
Downloads 30d 13,977,170 238,418
Downloads all time 206.3 M 3.6 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-17 2024-05-19

Download trend

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

14.2 M231 K
Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct Phi-3-vision-128k-instruct

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
Phi-3-vision-128k-instruct · fp16 @ 128K ctx 19.6 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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