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

Qwen2.5 0.5B Instruct requires approximately 1 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 64K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

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

Qwen2.5 0.5B Instruct is developed by southfreebird, 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?

Qwen2.5 0.5B Instruct 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 by southfreebird — VRAM 1GB, 64K context

Name: Qwen2.5 0.5B Instruct
Author: southfreebird

Qwen2.5 0.5B Instruct is an open-source language model by southfreebird. Features: 0.5b LLM, VRAM: 1GB, Context: 64K, License: apache-2.0, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.16.

Arxiv:2407.10671 Base model:finetune:qwen/qwen2... Base model:qwen/qwen2.5-0.5b Chat Conversational En Endpoints compatible Instruct Qwen2 Region:us Safetensors

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

Qwen2.5 0.5B Instruct Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Qwen2.5 0.5B Instruct
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/southfreebird/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct
Base Model(s)	Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B
Model Size	0.5b
Required VRAM	1 GB
Updated	2026-07-15
Maintainer	southfreebird
Model Type	qwen2
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	1.0 GB
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	Qwen2ForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	65536
Model Max Length	65536
Transformers Version	4.43.1
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	152064
Torch Data Type	bfloat16
Errors	replace

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