Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct vs Phi-3-mini-128k-instruct

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
microsoft · B
Params
3.8 B
Context
131,072
30d
214 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct Phi-3-mini-128k-instruct
Parameters 7.6 B 3.8 B
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM Phi3ForCausalLM
Context length 32,768 131,072
Licence apache-2.0 mit
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1 1
Downloads 30d 9,656,808 213,742
Downloads all time 182.5 M 12.4 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-16 2024-04-22

Download trend

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

12.3 M214 K
Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct Phi-3-mini-128k-instruct

VRAM side by side

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

Phi-3-mini-128k-instruct · fp16 @ 128K ctx 18.1 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct · fp16 18.4 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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