Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct vs Qwen3-0.6B

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 24 October 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
1.5 B
Context
32,768
30d
4.8 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
PrimeIntellect · B · Open weights
Params
752 M
Context
40,960
30d
836 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct Qwen3-0.6B
Parameters 1.5 B 752 M
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM Qwen3ForCausalLM
Context length 32,768 40,960
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1 —
Downloads 30d 4,779,599 836,153
Downloads all time 224.8 M 1.1 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-17 2025-08-12

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 89 days (28 Jul – 24 Oct)

14.2 M200 K
Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct Qwen3-0.6B

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-0.6B · fp16 2.3 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct · fp16 4.1 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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