Qwen2.5-1.5B vs OLMo-2-0425-1B

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 12 September 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
1.5 B
Context
131,072
30d
541 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
allenai · B · Open weights
Params
1.5 B
Context
4,096
30d
190 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen2.5-1.5B OLMo-2-0425-1B
Parameters 1.5 B 1.5 B
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM Olmo2ForCausalLM
Context length 131,072 4,096
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1 1
Downloads 30d 541,078 190,018
Downloads all time 15.9 M 7.2 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-15 2025-04-17

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

1.1 M190 K
Qwen2.5-1.5B OLMo-2-0425-1B A overtook B on 27 Sep

VRAM side by side

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

OLMo-2-0425-1B · fp16 7.3 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen2.5-1.5B · fp16 @ 128K ctx 7.6 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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