Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct-AWQ vs MiniMax-M2.5
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 4 August 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| 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
MiniMax-M2.5 · fp16 @ 192K ctx
1,077.0 GB / 24 GB