Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct vs falcon-7b

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

Qwen · A
Params
7.6 B
Context
32,768
30d
9.7 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
tiiuae · B
Params
7.2 B
Context
30d
379 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct falcon-7b
Parameters 7.6 B 7.2 B
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM FalconForCausalLM
Context length 32,768
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1 1
Downloads 30d 9,656,808 379,202
Downloads all time 182.5 M 16.4 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-16 2023-04-24

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)

12.3 M327 K
Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct falcon-7b

VRAM side by side

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

falcon-7b · fp16 17.5 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct · fp16 18.4 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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