What are the hardware requirements for Qwen2.5 0.5B Instruct Thinking?

Qwen2.5 0.5B Instruct Thinking requires approximately 2 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 32K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Qwen2.5 0.5B Instruct Thinking and how large is it?

Qwen2.5 0.5B Instruct Thinking is developed by AiCloser, a model with 0.5b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

Where can I download or evaluate Qwen2.5 0.5B Instruct Thinking?

Qwen2.5 0.5B Instruct Thinking is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Qwen2.5 0.5B Instruct Thinking by AiCloser — VRAM 2GB, 32K context

Name: Qwen2.5 0.5B Instruct Thinking
Author: AiCloser

Qwen2.5 0.5B Instruct Thinking is an open-source language model by AiCloser. Features: 0.5b LLM, VRAM: 2GB, Context: 32K, License: apache-2.0, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.16.

Base model:finetune:qwen/qwen2... Base model:qwen/qwen2.5-0.5b-i... Conversational Dataset:congliu/chinese-deepse... Endpoints compatible Instruct Qwen2 Region:us Safetensors Zh

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/AiCloser/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct-Thinking

Qwen2.5 0.5B Instruct Thinking Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Qwen2.5 0.5B Instruct Thinking
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/AiCloser/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct-Thinking
Base Model(s)	Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct
Model Size	0.5b
Required VRAM	2 GB
Updated	2026-10-09
Maintainer	AiCloser
Model Type	qwen2
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	2.0 GB
Supported Languages	zh
Model Architecture	Qwen2ForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	32768
Model Max Length	32768
Transformers Version	4.46.1
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	151936
Torch Data Type	float32
Errors	replace

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Qwen2 0.5B Abyme Merge3	128K / 1.3 GB	32	1
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Qwen2.5 0.5B Instruct	64K / 1 GB	16	0
Qwen2.5 0.5B Abliterated	32K / 1.3 GB	1450	1
Qwen2.5 0.5B Instruct	32K / 1 GB	6324790	572
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Sawyer 0.5B	32K / 1 GB	474	3
Parchi V2	32K / 1 GB	538	0

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than AiCloser/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct-Thinking.