Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct vs Qwen3-1.7B-GGUF

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
1.7 B
Context
40,960
30d
173 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct Qwen3-1.7B-GGUF
Parameters 1.5 B 1.7 B
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM —
Context length 32,768 40,960
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1 —
Downloads 30d 4,705,359 173,234
Downloads all time 225.0 M 574 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS GGUF
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-17 2025-05-05

Download trend

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

14.2 M162 K
Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct Qwen3-1.7B-GGUF

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

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