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

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
3.1 B
Context
32,768
30d
2.6 M
unsloth · B · Open weights
Params
3.2 B
Context
131,072
30d
536 K
llama3.2 licence · conditional

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct
Parameters 3.1 B 3.2 B
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM LlamaForCausalLM
Context length 32,768 131,072
Licence other llama3.2
Commercial use Unknown Conditional
Languages 1 1
Downloads 30d 2,587,484 535,914
Downloads all time 125.6 M 4.7 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-17 2024-09-25

Download trend

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

7.6 M175 K
Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct

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-Instruct · fp16 @ 128K ctx 15.3 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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