Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct vs gpt-j-6b

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
EleutherAI · B
Params
6.0 B
Context
30d
304 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct gpt-j-6b
Parameters 7.6 B 6.0 B
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM GPTJForCausalLM
Context length 32,768
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1 1
Downloads 30d 9,656,808 304,393
Downloads all time 182.5 M 9.1 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-16 2022-03-02

Download trend

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

12.3 M252 K
Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct gpt-j-6b

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

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