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

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 24 October 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
7.6 B
Context
32,768
30d
6.4 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
RekaAI · B · Open weights
Params
20.9 B
Context
32,768
30d
901
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct reka-flash-3
Deployment Open weights · also via API Open weights · also via API
Parameters 7.6 B 20.9 B
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM LlamaForCausalLM
Context length 32,768 32,768
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1 —
Downloads 30d 6,369,723 901
Downloads all time 190.0 M 23 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-16 2025-03-11
API input price / 1M tokens $0.10 $0.10
API output price / 1M tokens $0.20 $0.20
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $0.30 $0.30
Cached input / 1M tokens — —
AA Intelligence Index — 6.4
AA Coding Index — —
AA Agentic Index — —
Max output tokens 29,491 58,982
API providers 1 1
Tool calling Yes No
Reasoning mode No Yes

API cost

Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter

Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct $0.30
reka-flash-3 $0.30

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 89 days (28 Jul – 24 Oct)

12.3 M794
Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct reka-flash-3

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
reka-flash-3 · fp16 49.6 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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