Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct vs CodeLlama-7b-hf

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

Qwen · A
Params
7.6 B
Context
32,768
30d
12.1 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
codellama · B
Params
6.7 B
Context
16,384
30d
356 K
llama2 licence · conditional

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct CodeLlama-7b-hf
Parameters 7.6 B 6.7 B
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM LlamaForCausalLM
Context length 32,768 16,384
Licence apache-2.0 llama2
Commercial use Allowed Conditional
Languages 1 1
Downloads 30d 12,117,940 355,998
Downloads all time 165.8 M 3.5 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-16 2023-08-24

Download trend

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

12.2 M238 K
Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct CodeLlama-7b-hf

VRAM side by side

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

CodeLlama-7b-hf · fp16 16.3 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct · fp16 18.4 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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