What are the hardware requirements for Qwen1.5 0.5B Chat?

Qwen1.5 0.5B Chat requires a context window of 32K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Qwen1.5 0.5B Chat and how large is it?

Qwen1.5 0.5B Chat is developed by Xenova, 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 Qwen1.5 0.5B Chat?

Qwen1.5 0.5B Chat is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Qwen1.5 0.5B Chat by Xenova — 32K context

Name: Qwen1.5 0.5B Chat
Author: Xenova

Qwen1.5 0.5B Chat is an open-source language model by Xenova. Features: 0.5b LLM, Context: 32K, LLM Explorer Score: 0.13.

Base model:quantized:qwen/qwen... Base model:qwen/qwen1.5-0.5b-c... Conversational Onnx Qwen2 Region:us Transformers.js

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Xenova/Qwen1.5-0.5B-Chat

Qwen1.5 0.5B Chat Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text generation, chat

Input Output

Accepted Modalities:

text

Output Format:

generated text

LLM Name	Qwen1.5 0.5B Chat
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Xenova/Qwen1.5-0.5B-Chat
Base Model(s)	Qwen/Qwen1.5-0.5B-Chat Qwen/Qwen1.5-0.5B-Chat
Model Size	0.5b
Updated	2026-07-30
Maintainer	Xenova
Model Type	qwen2
Model Architecture	Qwen2ForCausalLM
Context Length	32768
Model Max Length	32768
Transformers Version	4.37.2
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	151936
Errors	replace

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Quantized Models of the Qwen1.5 0.5B Chat

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
Qwen1.5 0.5B Chat 4bit	4	11907	0 GB
Qwen1.5 0.5B Chat AWQ	7	224	0 GB

Best Alternatives to Qwen1.5 0.5B Chat

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
Reader Lm 0.5B	250K / 1 GB	188	150
Qwen2 0.5B	128K / 1 GB	1216780	169
Qwen2 0.5B Finetune Exp 1	128K / 1 GB	15	0
...0.5B FT EnhancedMUSREnsembleV3	128K / 1 GB	32	1
....5B FT V4 MUSR ENSEMBLE Mathis	128K / 2 GB	30	1
...0.5B FT MUSR ENSEMBLE V2Mathis	128K / 1 GB	25	0
...PRYMMAL 0.5B FT V4 MUSR Mathis	128K / 1 GB	62	1
Qwen2 0.5B Stf Imdb	128K / 1 GB	7	0
ECE PRYMMAL 0.5B FT V3 MUSR	128K / 2 GB	17	0
ECE PRYMMAL 0.5B FT V4 MUSR	128K / 2 GB	10	0

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than Xenova/Qwen1.5-0.5B-Chat.