What are the hardware requirements for DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B?

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B requires approximately 3.5 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 128K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B and how large is it?

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B is developed by deepseek-ai, a model with 1.5b 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 DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B?

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B by deepseek-ai — VRAM 3.5GB, 128K context

Name: DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B
Rating: 2 (1 reviews)
Author: deepseek-ai

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B is an open-source language model by deepseek-ai. Features: 1.5b LLM, VRAM: 3.5GB, Context: 128K, License: mit, LLM Explorer Score: 0.38.

Arxiv:2501.12948 Conversational Endpoints compatible Qwen2 Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B Benchmarks

IFEval: 34.63 vs 88 (so35)^-60.6%

MATH Lvl 5: 16.92

LLME Score: 0.37544

^nn.n% — How the model compares to the reference models: Anthropic Sonnet 3.5 ("so35"), GPT-4o ("gpt4o") or GPT-4 ("gpt4").

What is the LLM Explorer Rank (Score)

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B (deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B)

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DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B
Model Size	1.5b
Required VRAM	3.5 GB
Updated	2026-04-01
Maintainer	deepseek-ai
Model Type	qwen2
Model Files	3.5 GB
Model Architecture	Qwen2ForCausalLM
License	mit
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.44.0
Tokenizer Class	LlamaTokenizerFast
Beginning of Sentence Token	<｜begin▁of▁sentence｜>
End of Sentence Token	<｜end▁of▁sentence｜>
Vocabulary Size	151936
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

Quantized Models of the DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
...Seek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B GGUF	133	87910	0 GB
OpenThink	0	880	1 GB
...ill Qwen 1.5B Unsloth Bnb 4bit	17	6907	1 GB
... R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B Bnb 4bit	11	3014	1 GB
...Seek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B GGUF	6	102	1 GB
Dhanishtha	5	242	3 GB
Atlas Flash 1.5B Preview	2	106	3 GB
Atlas Flash 1.5B Preview	2	69	3 GB

Best Alternatives to DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
ReaderLM V2	500K / 3.1 GB	14849	779
Reader Lm 1.5B	250K / 3.1 GB	566	608
VibeThinker 1.5B	128K / 3.5 GB	2025	520
Ko R1 1.5B Preview	128K / 7.1 GB	15	9
Qwen2.5 1.5B	128K / 3.1 GB	914961	176
AceInstruct 1.5B	128K / 3.5 GB	76880	20
Qwen2 1.5B	128K / 3.1 GB	127243	102
1.5B Cold Start SFT	128K / 3.5 GB	4503	0
OpenReasoning Nemotron 1.5B	128K / 3.1 GB	7934	56
DeepScaleR 1.5B Preview	128K / 7.1 GB	7129	583

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