Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-AWQ vs Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2

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
mistralai · B
Params
7.2 B
Context
32,768
30d
1.3 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-AWQ Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2
Parameters 7.6 B 7.2 B
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM MistralForCausalLM
Context length 32,768 32,768
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 4,626,313 1,313,050
Downloads all time 16.8 M 61.8 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-17 2023-12-11

Download trend

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

4.6 M1.2 M
Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-AWQ Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2

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
Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2 · fp16 17.5 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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