Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct vs Llama-3.2-3B

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.

Qwen · A
Params
3.1 B
Context
32,768
30d
6.0 M
meta-llama · B
Params
3.2 B
Context
30d
552 K
llama3.2 licence · conditional

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct Llama-3.2-3B
Parameters 3.1 B 3.2 B
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM LlamaForCausalLM
Context length 32,768
Licence other llama3.2
Commercial use Unknown Conditional
Languages 1 8
Downloads 30d 5,952,246 551,703
Downloads all time 110.0 M 14.2 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No Yes — accept licence
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-17 2024-09-18

Download trend

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

6.0 M534 K
Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct Llama-3.2-3B

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct · fp16 7.8 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Llama-3.2-3B · fp16 8.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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