Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-AWQ vs Fanar-1-9B-Instruct

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

Qwen · A
Params
7.6 B
Context
32,768
30d
4.6 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
QCRI · B
Params
8.8 B
Context
4,096
30d
364 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-AWQ Fanar-1-9B-Instruct
Parameters 7.6 B 8.8 B
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM Gemma2ForCausalLM
Context length 32,768 4,096
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1 2
Downloads 30d 4,626,313 364,070
Downloads all time 16.8 M 568 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-17 2025-06-01

Download trend

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

4.6 M321 K
Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-AWQ Fanar-1-9B-Instruct

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-AWQ · fp16 7.8 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Fanar-1-9B-Instruct · fp16 21.1 GB / 24 GB
⚠️ Tight — reduce context

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