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

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
Qwen · B · Open weights
Params
3.1 B
Context
32,768
30d
203 K

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct Qwen2.5-3B
Parameters 3.1 B 3.1 B
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM Qwen2ForCausalLM
Context length 32,768 32,768
Licence other other
Commercial use Unknown Unknown
Languages 1 1
Downloads 30d 2,587,484 202,503
Downloads all time 125.6 M 7.6 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-17 2024-09-15

Download trend

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

7.6 M151 K
Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct Qwen2.5-3B

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
Qwen2.5-3B · fp16 7.8 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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