Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct-AWQ vs MiniMax-M2.5

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 4 August 2026.

Qwen · A
Params
73.0 B
Context
32,768
30d
475 K
MiniMaxAI · B
Params
228.7 B
Context
196,608
30d
324 K

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct-AWQ MiniMax-M2.5
Parameters 73.0 B 228.7 B
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM MiniMaxM2ForCausalLM
Context length 32,768 196,608
Licence other other
Commercial use Unknown Unknown
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 475,362 323,999
Downloads all time 11.9 M 4.9 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-17 2026-02-12

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)

1.3 M324 K
Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct-AWQ MiniMax-M2.5 A overtook B on 11 Sep

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct-AWQ · fp16 57.2 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
MiniMax-M2.5 · fp16 @ 192K ctx 1,077.0 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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