Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct vs phi-4

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
14.7 B
Context
16,384
30d
651 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct phi-4
Parameters 7.6 B 14.7 B
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM Phi3ForCausalLM
Context length 32,768 16,384
Licence apache-2.0 mit
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1 1
Downloads 30d 9,656,808 651,268
Downloads all time 182.5 M 14.4 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-16 2024-12-11

Download trend

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

12.3 M605 K
Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct phi-4

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
phi-4 · fp16 34.9 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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