Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct vs MiniCPM5-2B-GGUF

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 25 October 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
3.1 B
Context
32,768
30d
3.7 M
openbmb · B · Open weights
Params
2.0 B
Context
—
30d
192 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct MiniCPM5-2B-GGUF
Parameters 3.1 B 2.0 B
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM —
Context length 32,768 —
Licence other apache-2.0
Commercial use Unknown Allowed
Languages 1 2
Downloads 30d 3,718,369 191,713
Downloads all time 124.5 M 413 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS GGUF
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-17 2026-09-05

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (28 Jul – 25 Oct)

7.6 M172 K
Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct MiniCPM5-2B-GGUF

VRAM side by side

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

MiniCPM5-2B-GGUF · Q4_K_M 2.5 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct · fp16 7.8 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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