Qwen3-4B vs MiniCPM5-2B

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
4.0 B
Context
40,960
30d
4.0 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
openbmb · B · Open weights
Params
2.5 B
Context
131,072
30d
1.1 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-4B MiniCPM5-2B
Parameters 4.0 B 2.5 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM LlamaForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 131,072
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — 2
Downloads 30d 4,013,632 1,055,655
Downloads all time 94.5 M 2.4 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2026-09-06

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

12.6 M207 K
Qwen3-4B MiniCPM5-2B

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-4B · fp16 10.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
MiniCPM5-2B · fp16 @ 128K ctx 12.1 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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