Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct vs Qwen3-4B-Thinking-2507-FP8

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
Qwen · B
Params
4.4 B
Context
262,144
30d
205 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct Qwen3-4B-Thinking-2507-FP8
Parameters 1.5 B 4.4 B
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM Qwen3ForCausalLM
Context length 32,768 262,144
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 13,977,170 204,861
Downloads all time 206.3 M 2.4 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-17 2025-08-06

Download trend

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

14.2 M204 K
Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct Qwen3-4B-Thinking-2507-FP8

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
Qwen3-4B-Thinking-2507-FP8 · fp16 @ 256K ctx 27.4 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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