Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct vs GLM-4.7-Flash-MLX-8bit

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
lmstudio-community · B
Params
29.9 B
Context
202,752
30d
220 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct GLM-4.7-Flash-MLX-8bit
Parameters 7.6 B 29.9 B
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM Glm4MoeLiteForCausalLM
Context length 32,768 202,752
Licence apache-2.0 mit
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1 2
Downloads 30d 12,117,940 219,995
Downloads all time 165.8 M 3.1 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-16 2026-01-19

Download trend

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

12.2 M220 K
Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct GLM-4.7-Flash-MLX-8bit

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct · fp16 18.4 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
GLM-4.7-Flash-MLX-8bit · fp16 @ 198K ctx 146.7 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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