Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct vs NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-NVFP4
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.
Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
7.6 B
Context
32,768
30d
6.0 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
nvidia · B · Open weights
Params
17.8 B
Context
1,048,576
30d
1.0 M
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct | NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-NVFP4 |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Open weights · also via API | Open weights |
| Parameters | 7.6 B | 17.8 B |
| Architecture | Qwen2ForCausalLM | NemotronHForCausalLM |
| Context length | 32,768 | 1,048,576 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | other |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Unknown |
| Languages | 1 | 6 |
| Downloads 30d | 6,037,480 | 1,011,751 |
| Downloads all time | 194.0 M | 3.2 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2024-09-16 | 2026-08-04 |
| API input price / 1M tokens | $0.10 | not on OpenRouter |
| API output price / 1M tokens | $0.20 | not on OpenRouter |
| Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens | $0.30 | not on OpenRouter |
| Cached input / 1M tokens | — | not on OpenRouter |
| AA Intelligence Index | — | not on OpenRouter |
| AA Coding Index | — | not on OpenRouter |
| AA Agentic Index | — | not on OpenRouter |
| Max output tokens | 29,491 | not on OpenRouter |
| API providers | 1 | not on OpenRouter |
| Tool calling | Yes | not on OpenRouter |
| Reasoning mode | No | not on OpenRouter |
API cost
Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter
Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct
$0.30
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)
12.3 M196 K
Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct
NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-NVFP4
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct · fp16
18.4 GB / 24 GB
NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-NVFP4 · fp16 @ 1024K ctx
366.4 GB / 24 GB