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

Qwen2.5 Coder 0.5B requires approximately 1 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 Coder 0.5B and how large is it?

Qwen2.5 Coder 0.5B is developed by Qwen, 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 Coder 0.5B?

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

Qwen2.5 Coder 0.5B by Qwen — VRAM 1GB, 32K context

Name: Qwen2.5 Coder 0.5B
Author: Qwen

Qwen2.5 Coder 0.5B is an open-source language model by Qwen. Features: 0.5b LLM, VRAM: 1GB, Context: 32K, License: apache-2.0, Code Generating, LLM Explorer Score: 0.21.

Arxiv:2407.10671 Arxiv:2409.12186 Base model:finetune:qwen/qwen2... Base model:qwen/qwen2.5-0.5b Code Codegen Codeqwen Conversational Deploy:azure En Endpoints compatible Qwen Qwen-coder Qwen2 Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B

Qwen2.5 Coder 0.5B Parameters and Internals

Model Type

code generation

Additional Notes

We do not recommend using base language models for conversations. Instead, apply post-training (e.g., SFT, RLHF, continued pretraining).

Training Details

Data Sources:

source code, text-code grounding, Synthetic data

Data Volume:

5.5 trillion tokens

Methodology:

Pretraining

Context Length:

32768

Model Architecture:

transformers with RoPE, SwiGLU, RMSNorm, Attention QKV bias and tied word embeddings

LLM Name	Qwen2.5 Coder 0.5B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B
Base Model(s)	Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B
Model Size	0.5b
Required VRAM	1 GB
Updated	2026-07-25
Maintainer	Qwen
Model Type	qwen2
Model Files	1.0 GB
Supported Languages	en
Generates Code	Yes
Model Architecture	Qwen2ForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	32768
Model Max Length	32768
Transformers Version	4.43.1
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	151936
Torch Data Type	bfloat16
Errors	replace

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Quantized Models of the Qwen2.5 Coder 0.5B

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
Qwen2.5 Coder 0.5B Bnb 4bit	1	1104	0 GB

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Qwen2.5 Coder 0.5B Instruct	32K / 1 GB	97439	74
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Qwen CoMa 0.5B	32K / 1.3 GB	2	1
Qwen2.5 Coder 0.5B Instruct	32K / 1 GB	2321	5
Qwen2.5 Coder 0.5B Instruct	32K / 1 GB	14	0

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