Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct vs llava-1.5-7b-hf

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.

Qwen · A
Params
8.3 B
Context
128,000
30d
9.3 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
llava-hf · B
Params
7.1 B
Context
30d
3.1 M
llama2 licence · conditional

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct llava-1.5-7b-hf
Parameters 8.3 B 7.1 B
Architecture Qwen2_5_VLForConditionalGeneration LlavaForConditionalGeneration
Context length 128,000
Licence apache-2.0 llama2
Commercial use Allowed Conditional
Languages 1 1
Downloads 30d 9,333,867 3,145,952
Downloads all time 88.5 M 38.3 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-01-26 2023-12-05

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)

9.3 M3.0 M
Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct llava-1.5-7b-hf

VRAM side by side

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

llava-1.5-7b-hf · fp16 17.1 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct · fp16 @ 125K ctx 38.2 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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