Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct vs Llama-Guard-4-12B

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

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
8.3 B
Context
128,000
30d
4.9 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
meta-llama · B · Open weights
Params
12.0 B
Context
—
30d
44 K

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct Llama-Guard-4-12B
Deployment Open weights Open weights · also via API
Parameters 8.3 B 12.0 B
Architecture Qwen2_5_VLForConditionalGeneration Llama4ForConditionalGeneration
Context length 128,000 163,840
Licence apache-2.0 other
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages 1 1
Downloads 30d 4,940,552 44,083
Downloads all time 106.3 M 1.6 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No Yes — accept licence
First seen on the Hub 2025-01-26 2025-04-23
API input price / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter $0.18
API output price / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter $0.18
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens not on OpenRouter $0.36
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 not on OpenRouter 16,384
API providers not on OpenRouter 1
Tool calling not on OpenRouter No
Reasoning mode not on OpenRouter No

API cost

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

Llama-Guard-4-12B $0.36

Download trend

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

9.6 M46 K
Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct Llama-Guard-4-12B

VRAM side by side

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

Llama-Guard-4-12B · fp16 28.7 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct · fp16 @ 125K ctx 38.2 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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