Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct vs Qwen2.5-3B

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 September 2026.

Qwen · A

Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct

Params

7.6 B

Context

32,768

30d

9.7 M

apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Qwen · B

Params

3.1 B

Context

32,768

30d

338 K

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification	Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct	Qwen2.5-3B
Parameters	7.6 B	3.1 B
Architecture	Qwen2ForCausalLM	Qwen2ForCausalLM
Context length	32,768	32,768
Licence	apache-2.0	other
Commercial use	Allowed	Unknown
Languages	1	1
Downloads 30d	9,656,808	338,459
Downloads all time	182.5 M	7.2 M
Quantizations on the Hub	SAFETENSORS	SAFETENSORS
Gated	No	No
First seen on the Hub	2024-09-16	2024-09-15

Download trend

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

12.3 M247 K

Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct Qwen2.5-3B

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen2.5-3B · fp16 7.8 GB / 24 GB

✅ Runs comfortably

Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct · fp16 18.4 GB / 24 GB

✅ Runs comfortably

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