Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct vs gemma-2-2b-it
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 September 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct | gemma-2-2b-it |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 7.6 B | 2.6 B |
| Architecture | Qwen2ForCausalLM | Gemma2ForCausalLM |
| Context length | 32,768 | — |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | gemma |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Conditional |
| Languages | 1 | — |
| Downloads 30d | 9,656,808 | 663,331 |
| Downloads all time | 182.5 M | 11.8 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | Yes — accept licence |
| First seen on the Hub | 2024-09-16 | 2024-07-16 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)
12.3 M557 K
Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct
gemma-2-2b-it
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
gemma-2-2b-it · fp16
6.6 GB / 24 GB
Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct · fp16
18.4 GB / 24 GB