Qwen3-8B vs MiniCPM5-2B
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.
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 | Qwen3-8B | MiniCPM5-2B |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 8.2 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 | 6,837,564 | 1,055,655 |
| Downloads all time | 137.6 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)
16.4 M207 K
Qwen3-8B
MiniCPM5-2B
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
MiniCPM5-2B · fp16 @ 128K ctx
12.1 GB / 24 GB
Qwen3-8B · fp16
19.7 GB / 24 GB