Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct vs Qwen3.8-27B-DFlash2

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
incoai · B · Open weights
Params
1.9 B
Context
262,144
30d
438 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct Qwen3.8-27B-DFlash2
Parameters 3.1 B 1.9 B
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM DFlash2DraftModel
Context length 32,768 262,144
Licence other apache-2.0
Commercial use Unknown Allowed
Languages 1 —
Downloads 30d 2,587,484 437,556
Downloads all time 125.6 M 1.1 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-17 2026-08-18

Download trend

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

7.6 M203 K
Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct Qwen3.8-27B-DFlash2

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
Qwen3.8-27B-DFlash2 · fp16 @ 256K ctx 14.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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