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

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 24 October 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
3.1 B
Context
32,768
30d
3.8 M
openbmb · B · Open weights
Params
2.5 B
Context
131,072
30d
548 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct MiniCPM5-2B-MLX
Parameters 3.1 B 2.5 B
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM LlamaForCausalLM
Context length 32,768 131,072
Licence other apache-2.0
Commercial use Unknown Allowed
Languages 1 2
Downloads 30d 3,795,251 547,635
Downloads all time 124.4 M 696 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-17 2026-09-05

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 89 days (28 Jul – 24 Oct)

7.6 M194 K
Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct MiniCPM5-2B-MLX

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
MiniCPM5-2B-MLX · fp16 @ 128K ctx 8.1 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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