Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct vs falcon-7b
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.
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 | 12,117,940 | 1,183,152 |
| Downloads all time | 165.8 M | 15.7 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 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)
12.2 M1.2 M
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
Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct · fp16
18.4 GB / 24 GB