What are the hardware requirements for Qwen2.5 Coder 3B Instruct?

Qwen2.5 Coder 3B Instruct requires approximately 6.2 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 Coder 3B Instruct and how large is it?

Qwen2.5 Coder 3B Instruct is developed by Qwen, a model with 3b 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 3B Instruct?

Qwen2.5 Coder 3B Instruct is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Qwen2.5 Coder 3B Instruct by Qwen — VRAM 6.2GB, 32K context

Name: Qwen2.5 Coder 3B Instruct
Author: Qwen

Qwen2.5 Coder 3B Instruct is an open-source language model by Qwen. Features: 3b LLM, VRAM: 6.2GB, Context: 32K, License: other, Instruction-Based, Code Generating, LLM Explorer Score: 0.23.

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

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-3B-Instruct

Qwen2.5 Coder 3B Instruct Parameters and Internals

Model Type

Causal Language Models

Additional Notes

Qwen2.5-Coder series features models in six sizes: 0.5, 1.5, 3, 7, 14, 32 billion parameters.

Training Details

Data Sources:

source code, text-code grounding, Synthetic data

Data Volume:

5.5 trillion tokens

Context Length:

32768

Model Architecture:

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

LLM Name	Qwen2.5 Coder 3B Instruct
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-3B-Instruct
Base Model(s)	Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-3B Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-3B
Model Size	3b
Required VRAM	6.2 GB
Updated	2026-07-13
Maintainer	Qwen
Model Type	qwen2
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-2 1.2 GB: 2-of-2
Supported Languages	en
Generates Code	Yes
Model Architecture	Qwen2ForCausalLM
License	other
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 3B Instruct

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
QwenDGAF Coder 2 3B	2	506	1 GB
QwenDGAF Coder 3B	1	1258	1 GB
LaboAI 0.4.0 3B	1	150	6 GB
Qwen2.5 Coder 3B Instruct AWQ	8	39235	2 GB
...2.5 Coder 3B Instruct Bnb 4bit	8	20815	2 GB
Tiny Agent A 3B	24	526	6 GB
Qwen2.5 Coder 3B Instruct 4bit	2	1621	1 GB
....5 Coder 3B Instruct GPTQ Int4	1	880	2 GB
....5 Coder 3B Instruct GPTQ Int8	1	228	3 GB

Best Alternatives to Qwen2.5 Coder 3B Instruct

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
VibeThinker 3B	128K / 6.2 GB	52745	806
Tessa T1 3B	117K / 6.2 GB	10	5
UIGEN T1.5 3B	117K / 6.2 GB	7	1
Swarmhunter 3B	32K / 6.2 GB	321	1
PrismaCoder 3B	32K / 6.2 GB	536	1
...er 3B Instruct Spider Sft Grpo	32K / 6.2 GB	42	1
Qwen 2.5 3b Smarteaz 0.01a	32K / 6.3 GB	8	1
Q2.5 CodeR1 3B	32K / 6.2 GB	0	1
VisCoder2 3B	32K / 6.2 GB	55	3
Qwen 2.5 Coder 3B SQL Writer	32K / 6.2 GB	3	1

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-3B-Instruct.