Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct vs Llama-2-7b-hf

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
NousResearch · B
Params
6.7 B
Context
4,096
30d
220 K

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct Llama-2-7b-hf
Parameters 7.6 B 6.7 B
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM LlamaForCausalLM
Context length 32,768 4,096
Licence apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages 1 1
Downloads 30d 9,656,808 220,062
Downloads all time 182.5 M 5.6 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-16 2023-07-18

Download trend

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

12.3 M213 K
Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct Llama-2-7b-hf

VRAM side by side

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

Llama-2-7b-hf · fp16 16.3 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct · fp16 18.4 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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