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

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

nm-testing · A
Params
1.8 B
Context
2,048
30d
571 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Qwen · B
Params
1.5 B
Context
4,096
30d
208 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification SmolLM-1.7B-Instruct-quantized.w4a16 Qwen2.5-Math-1.5B
Parameters 1.8 B 1.5 B
Architecture LlamaForCausalLM Qwen2ForCausalLM
Context length 2,048 4,096
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1 1
Downloads 30d 571,201 207,749
Downloads all time 5.5 M 7.2 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-08-23 2024-09-16

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)

1.5 M208 K
SmolLM-1.7B-Instruct-quantized.w4a16 Qwen2.5-Math-1.5B A overtook B on 3 Sep

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-Math-1.5B · fp16 4.1 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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