Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-AWQ vs Ornith-1.5-9B-MLX

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 September 2026.

Qwen · A
Params
7.6 B
Context
32,768
30d
3.5 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
ornith-ai · B
Params
9.0 B
Context
30d
341 K

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-AWQ Ornith-1.5-9B-MLX
Parameters 7.6 B 9.0 B
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration
Context length 32,768
Licence apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages 1 1
Downloads 30d 3,504,235 341,248
Downloads all time 22.9 M 344 K
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 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)

4.7 M196 K
Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-AWQ Ornith-1.5-9B-MLX

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
Ornith-1.5-9B-MLX · fp16 21.5 GB / 24 GB
⚠️ Tight — reduce context

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