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

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

Qwen · A

Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct

Params

7.6 B

Context

32,768

30d

12.1 M

apache-2.0 · commercial OK

tiiuae · B

falcon-mamba-7b

Params

7.3 B

Context

—

30d

174 K

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification	Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct	falcon-mamba-7b
Parameters	7.6 B	7.3 B
Architecture	Qwen2ForCausalLM	FalconMambaForCausalLM
Context length	32,768	—
Licence	apache-2.0	other
Commercial use	Allowed	Unknown
Languages	1	1
Downloads 30d	12,117,940	173,837
Downloads all time	165.8 M	847 K
Quantizations on the Hub	SAFETENSORS	SAFETENSORS
Gated	No	No
First seen on the Hub	2024-09-16	2024-07-17

Download trend

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

12.2 M165 K

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

VRAM side by side

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

falcon-mamba-7b · fp16 17.6 GB / 24 GB

✅ Runs comfortably

Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct · fp16 18.4 GB / 24 GB

✅ Runs comfortably

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