Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct vs phi-2

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

Qwen · A
Params
3.1 B
Context
32,768
30d
6.0 M
microsoft · B
Params
2.8 B
Context
2,048
30d
771 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct phi-2
Parameters 3.1 B 2.8 B
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM PhiForCausalLM
Context length 32,768 2,048
Licence other mit
Commercial use Unknown Allowed
Languages 1 1
Downloads 30d 5,952,246 771,396
Downloads all time 110.0 M 21.5 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-17 2023-12-13

Download trend

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

6.0 M738 K
Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct phi-2

VRAM side by side

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

phi-2 · fp16 7.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct · fp16 7.8 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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