Qwen2.5-Coder-1.5B-Instruct-GGUF
Qwen2.5-Coder is the latest series of Code-Specific Qwen large language models (formerly known as CodeQwen). As of now, Qwen2.5-Coder has covered six mainstream model sizes, 0.5, 1.5, 3, 7, 14, 32 billion parameters, to meet the needs of different developers. Qwen2.5-Coder brings the following improvements upon CodeQwen1.5:
Params
1.5 B
Context
32,768
Downloads 30d
216 K
Likes
148
Download history
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Can you run it?
Estimated VRAM at 8K context unless noted. Pick your hardware to see the verdict per quantization.
| File | Quant | Size | Est. VRAM | Verdict on RTX 4090 · 24 GB |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| qwen2.5-coder-1.5b-instruct-q2_k.gguf | Q2_K | 0.8 GB | 1.6 GB | ✅ Runs comfortably |
| qwen2.5-coder-1.5b-instruct-q3_k_m.gguf | Q3_K_M | 0.9 GB | 1.7 GB | ✅ Runs comfortably |
| qwen2.5-coder-1.5b-instruct-q4_0.gguf | Q4_0 | 1.1 GB | 1.9 GB | ✅ Runs comfortably |
| qwen2.5-coder-1.5b-instruct-q4_k_m.gguf | Q4_K_M | 1.1 GB | 2.0 GB | ✅ Runs comfortably |
| qwen2.5-coder-1.5b-instruct-q5_0.gguf | Q5_0 | 1.3 GB | 2.1 GB | ✅ Runs comfortably |
| qwen2.5-coder-1.5b-instruct-q5_k_m.gguf | Q5_K_M | 1.3 GB | 2.1 GB | ✅ Runs comfortably |
| qwen2.5-coder-1.5b-instruct-q6_k.gguf | Q6_K | 1.5 GB | 2.3 GB | ✅ Runs comfortably |
| qwen2.5-coder-1.5b-instruct-q8_0.gguf | Q8_0 | 1.9 GB | 2.8 GB | ✅ Runs comfortably |
Estimate: file size × 1.1 + KV cache at 8K + 0.5 GB overhead. Not a benchmark — how we calculate this.
Run it
copy-paste, exact tags checked against the Hub$ ollama run qwen2-5-coder-1-5b-instruct-gguf # pin the quantization explicitly $ ollama run qwen2-5-coder-1-5b-instruct-gguf-q4_0
$ huggingface-cli download Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-1.5B-Instruct-GGUF-GGUF \
qwen2.5-coder-1.5b-instruct-q4_0.gguf --local-dir .
$ llama-cli -m qwen2.5-coder-1.5b-instruct-q4_0.gguf \
-c 8192 -ngl 99 -t 8 --color
$ curl -s https://aimodelscomparison.com/api/v1/models/qwen2-5-coder-1-5b-instruct-gguf
{
"hf_id": "Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-1.5B-Instruct-GGUF",
"params_b": 1.50,
"context_length": 32768,
"license": { "id": "apache-2.0", "commercial": "yes" },
"downloads_30d": 216370,
"vram_estimates": [
{ "quant": "Q2_K", "gb": 1.6 },
{ "quant": "Q3_K_M", "gb": 1.7 }
],
"updated_at": "2026-10-13T01:00:23Z"
}
Specifications
- Parameters
- 1.5 B
- Context length
- 32,768
- Licence
- apache-2.0
- First seen on the Hub
- 2024-09-18
- Base model
- Qwen2.5-Coder-1.5B-Instruct
- Training datasets
- undisclosed
- Added to our catalog
- 2026-10-13
Family
Base model and the most-downloaded derivatives in the catalog.
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