SmolLM-1.7B-Instruct-quantized.w4a16 vs Qwen2.5-1.5B

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 16 August 2026.

nm-testing · A · Open weights
Params
1.8 B
Context
2,048
30d
152 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Qwen · B · Open weights
Params
1.5 B
Context
131,072
30d
541 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification SmolLM-1.7B-Instruct-quantized.w4a16 Qwen2.5-1.5B
Parameters 1.8 B 1.5 B
Architecture LlamaForCausalLM Qwen2ForCausalLM
Context length 2,048 131,072
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1 1
Downloads 30d 151,608 541,078
Downloads all time 5.8 M 15.9 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-08-23 2024-09-15

Download trend

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

1.3 M152 K
SmolLM-1.7B-Instruct-quantized.w4a16 Qwen2.5-1.5B

VRAM side by side

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

SmolLM-1.7B-Instruct-quantized.w4a16 · fp16 2.7 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen2.5-1.5B · fp16 @ 128K ctx 7.6 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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