Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct vs Qwen1.5-1.8B-Chat

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 25 October 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
1.5 B
Context
32,768
30d
4.7 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Qwen · B · Open weights
Params
1.8 B
Context
32,768
30d
185 K

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct Qwen1.5-1.8B-Chat
Parameters 1.5 B 1.8 B
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM Qwen2ForCausalLM
Context length 32,768 32,768
Licence apache-2.0 other
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages 1 1
Downloads 30d 4,705,359 184,874
Downloads all time 225.0 M 1.5 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-17 2024-01-30

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (28 Jul – 25 Oct)

14.2 M165 K
Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct Qwen1.5-1.8B-Chat

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
Qwen1.5-1.8B-Chat · fp16 4.8 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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