Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct vs MiniCPM-SALA-AWQ-8bit

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
cyankiwi · B · Open weights
Params
3.1 B
Context
524,288
30d
621 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct MiniCPM-SALA-AWQ-8bit
Parameters 3.1 B 3.1 B
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM MiniCPMSALAForCausalLM
Context length 32,768 524,288
Licence other apache-2.0
Commercial use Unknown Allowed
Languages 1 2
Downloads 30d 2,587,484 620,818
Downloads all time 125.6 M 2.1 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-17 2026-02-15

Download trend

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

7.6 M166 K
Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct MiniCPM-SALA-AWQ-8bit

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
MiniCPM-SALA-AWQ-8bit · fp16 @ 512K ctx 41.9 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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