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Qwen1.5-1.8B-Chat

Qwen Research / non-commercial (tongyi-qianwen-research) out 3 years ago

1.84B parameters, text in, text out, 32K tokens of context. 1 provider serves it.

Verified 2026-10-25 Rank #394 in LLMs · score 79.8 method v1 Sources 3 Downloads 30d 184.9k · #258 of 619 tracked

Can I run it?1.1GB at INT4Estimatefits a 16 GB cardmethod
Can I use it?Research / non-commercial (tongyi-qianwen-research)Non-commercial onlylicence file2026-10-24
Do people use it?184.9kdownloads, 30 days#258 of 619 we track · top 42%+3 likes, downloads +6% this week84 likesHugging Face2026-10-24

Worth reading

Picked by rule from 7 tracked pieces: the lab's own post, the most shared, a field report, the latest.

Latest · 3 years ago

Qwen1.5-Moe: Matching 7B Model Performance with 1/3 Activated Parameters

Qwen1.5-MoE-A2.7B matches 7B model performance with only 2.7 billion activated parameters using a 64-expert configuration.

  • The model partitions a single FFN into segments to generate 64 experts without increasing the total parameter count.
  • Training from scratch is inefficient, so the team repurposes the existing Qwen-1.8B model to initialize Qwen1.5-MoE-A2.7B.
qwenlm.github.io 2024-03-28 104 HN pts · 10 comments 1.5k words about the Qwen1.5 family family

7 best of 7 tracked

The 1 pick above, plus these 6. Top is the radar's score: discussion, source authority and the lab's own posts, fading with age.

  1. ArticleQwen1.5-110Bqwenlm.github.io · 2024-04-26 · official
  2. ArticleQwen1.5-32B: Fitting the Capstone of the Qwen1.5 Language Model Seriesqwenlm.github.io · 2024-04-05 · official
  3. ArticleQwen1.5qwenlm.github.io · 2024-02-05 · 5 HN pts · official
  4. DiscussionQwen1.5-110B Previewtwitter.com · 2024-04-20
  5. ArticleComplete tutorial: Run Qwen LLM across your local machines without Python/C++secondstate.io · 2024-02-22
  6. ArticleRun Alicloud's Qwen LLM with a 2MB cross GPU/CPU rust appsecondstate.io · 2024-02-28

Where to run it

Live hosted endpoints, cheapest first, USD per million tokens. Ties break on output price, then provider name.

#Cheapest live rowIn /1MOut /1MContextQuantSeen
1 Featherless — — — — Oct 25

All 1 provider →

Where it's used

Hugging Face does not say who downloads a model or with what. These are the proxies: API providers listing it, quantized builds, fine-tunes/adapters/merges, and Spaces that load it.

Served by 1 API provider; 14 quantized builds for local use; a big base for builders (354 fine-tunes, adapters and merges).

  • As a service1Featherless
  • On own hardware14quantized builds
  • Built on35414 fine-tunes · 340 adapters · 0 merges
  • In apps100+Hugging Face Spaces

Top Spaces running it: Justinrune/LLaMA-Factory ♥ 12 · lightmate/llm-chatbot ♥ 9 · bardsai/performance-llm-board ♥ 3 · as-cle-bert/bloom-multilingual-chat ♥ 3

Will it fit?

Weights only, an estimate: leave room for the KV cache. Method

Fits a 16 GB card at INT4

About 1.1 GB at INT4, 2.2 GB at FP8, 4.4 GB at BF16: weights only, so leave room for the KV cache.

16 GB card64 GB Mac2×80 GB8×80 GBINT4: about 1.1 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)INT41.1 GBFP8: about 2.2 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)FP82.2 GBBF16: about 4.4 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)BF164.4 GB
16 GB card64 GB Mac2×80 GB8×80 GBINT4: about 1.1 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)INT41.1 GBFP8: about 2.2 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)FP82.2 GBBF16: about 4.4 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)BF164.4 GB

Estimate params × bytes per param × 1.2 · how we estimate

The story so far

Weights, every dated article, and repo commits on one rail.

2 dated articles and 25 repo commits so far

Teal is the weights (2024-01-30), amber triangles are 2 dated articles (each links to it), grey ticks are repo commits.

FebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOct2024-04-30: 1 repo commit2024-04-05: 2 repo commits2024-04-04: 1 repo commit2024-02-28: 1 repo commit2024-02-20: 1 repo commit2024-02-09: 1 repo commit2024-02-06: 1 repo commit2024-02-05: 6 repo commits2024-02-03: 3 repo commits2024-02-02: 2 repo commits2024-01-31: 5 repo commits2024-01-30: 1 repo commitQwen1.5-Moe: Matching 7B Model Performance with 1/3 Activated Parameters · 2024-03-28Qwen1.5 · 2024-02-05Weights 2024-01-30 · 2024-01-30Weights 2024-01-30now · 1 provider
FebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOct2024-04-30: 1 repo commit2024-04-05: 2 repo commits2024-04-04: 1 repo commit2024-02-28: 1 repo commit2024-02-20: 1 repo commit2024-02-09: 1 repo commit2024-02-06: 1 repo commit2024-02-05: 6 repo commits2024-02-03: 3 repo commits2024-02-02: 2 repo commits2024-01-31: 5 repo commits2024-01-30: 1 repo commitQwen1.5-Moe: Matching 7B Model Performance with 1/3 Activated Parameters · 2024-03-28Qwen1.5 · 2024-02-05Weights 2024-01-30 · 2024-01-30Weights 2024-01-30now · 1 provider

What people built on it

368 derivatives on the Hub. Which build to run, by runtime: the most downloaded in each class.

368 derivatives on the Hub, most of them adapters

From the Hugging Face model tree; quantized builds in teal, fine-tunes, merges and adapters in greys.

14 quantized (Hugging Face model tree)14 fine-tunes (Hugging Face model tree)340 adapters (Hugging Face model tree)14 quantized14 fine-tunes340 adapters
14 quantized (Hugging Face model tree)14 fine-tunes (Hugging Face model tree)340 adapters (Hugging Face model tree)14 quantized14 fine-tunes340 adapters

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Reference

Everything else, folded: the full tables, every source.

Use-case evidence

2 use cases

What it is good at 2 use cases

Labels are evidence, not verdicts: measured a third-party leaderboard row for this model; author-reported a number the model author published in the card or eval files; structural a deterministic signal from the name, config or chat template, or a decision-model estimate. Each chip links to its source. All use cases.

Facts

22 fields

Listed in LLMs

Facts

Pipeline tagtext-generation
Librarytransformers
ArchitecturesQwen2ForCausalLM
Model typeqwen2
Dtypebfloat16
Params by dtypeBF16: 1,836,828,672
Size bandS
MoEno
Context length32,768 (config.json max_position_embeddings)
Languagesen
PapersarXiv:2309.16609
LicenseResearch / non-commercial (tongyi-qianwen-research) (other)
Hub snapshot2026-10-25

Servability

vLLM · SGLang

Servability

vLLM: supported · Qwen2ForCausalLM · 7050ef881ff0835f6890a47db1859a24c65481d6SGLang: supported · Qwen2ForCausalLM · 773cb938fe9484a8f7e7e46fb1b1fe96412c59ed

vLLM registry (7050ef881ff0835f6890a47db1859a24c65481d6) · SGLang registry (773cb938fe9484a8f7e7e46fb1b1fe96412c59ed) · Matched by architecture class name against each project's registry on main; 'supported' means the architecture is registered, not that this checkpoint was tested.

Hardware fit

3 estimates

Hardware fit ESTIMATE

Weights-only memory for Qwen1.5-1.8B-Chat: params × bytes/param × 1.2 overhead. KV cache and activations are extra. How this is computed.

BF16 (2 bytes/param)4.4 GB · Single GPU (<24 GB)
FP8 (1 byte/param)2.2 GB · Edge (<4 GB)
INT4 (0.5 bytes/param)1.1 GB · Edge (<4 GB)

Weights only (params × bytes/param × 1.2 overhead); KV cache and activations extra.

All variants

40 variants

Lineage

Original model Family: Qwen/Qwen1.5 368 derivatives on the Hub

quantized: 14adapter: 340finetune: 14

Top variants (40 shown, ranked by downloads)

Relation
Quant
40 rows
Variant Relation Quant Params Band License Author Likes Downloads
second-state/Qwen1.5-1.8B-Chat-GGUF quantized GGUF — — other second-state 2 297.4k
CMLM/ZhongJing-2-1_8b adapter — — — other CMLM 11 9.9k
mradermacher/Qwen1.5-1.8B-Chat-i1-GGUF quantized GGUF — — other mradermacher 0 3.9k
tensorblock/Qwen1.5-1.8B-Chat-GGUF quantized GGUF — — other tensorblock 0 3.6k
amiguel/GM_Qwen1.8B_Finetune quantized — 1.87B S other amiguel 0 3.3k
JenniferHJF/qwen1.5-emoji-finetuned finetune — 1.84B S other JenniferHJF 0 3k
CMLL/ZhongJing-2-1_8b-GGUF adapter GGUF — — other CMLL 4 2.8k
mradermacher/Qwen1.5-1.8B-Chat-GGUF quantized GGUF — — other mradermacher 0 3k
featherless-ai-quants/Qwen-Qwen1.5-1.8B-Chat-GGUF quantized GGUF — — — featherless-ai-quants 0 2.1k
Xenova/Qwen1.5-1.8B-Chat quantized — — — — Xenova 2 1.9k
itlwas/Qwen1.5-1.8B-Chat-Q4_K_M-GGUF quantized GGUF — — other itlwas 0 1.8k
mlc-ai/Qwen1.5-1.8B-Chat-q4f16_1-MLC quantized — — — — mlc-ai 0 1.6k
XcaliburMoon/XcaliburBiz-1.8B-report finetune GGUF — — apache-2.0 XcaliburMoon 1 772
terry69/qwen_1.8_feedback_dirty finetune — 1.84B S other terry69 0 400
deltawi/Qwen-1.5-1.8B-SQL adapter — — — — deltawi 2 198
amai-gsu/Qwen1.5-1.8B-Chat-Q4_0-GGUF quantized Q4_0 — — other amai-gsu 0 271
Muyumba/colegium-ai adapter — 1.84B S apache-2.0 Muyumba 0 196
mouhamadNIbrahim/qwen15-fitness-qlora-adapter adapter — — — apache-2.0 mouhamadNIbrahim 0 193
amai-gsu/Qwen1.5-1.8B-Chat-Q4_K_M-GGUF quantized GGUF — — other amai-gsu 0 190
AngoHF/EssayGPT adapter — — — other AngoHF 0 175
amai-gsu/Qwen1.5-1.8B-Chat-Q4_K_S-GGUF quantized GGUF — — other amai-gsu 0 171
522H0134-NguyenNhatHuy/Qwen-1.5-1.8B-Chat-SFT adapter — — — apache-2.0 522H0134-NguyenNhatHuy 0 164
mlc-ai/Qwen1.5-1.8B-Chat-q4f32_1-MLC quantized — — — — mlc-ai 0 163
eren23/finetune_test_qwen15-1-8b-sft-lora adapter — — — other eren23 0 149
CMLL/ZhongJing-2-1_8b-merge adapter — 1.84B S other CMLL 2 31
XcaliburMoon/XcaliburBiz-1.8B-report-v2 finetune GGUF — — apache-2.0 XcaliburMoon 0 120
Galaxy-Ai-Bot/SUNy-Qwen-Merged finetune — 1.84B S apache-2.0 Galaxy-Ai-Bot 0 112
Mithilss/Qwen1.5-1.8B-Chat-baseline adapter — — — other Mithilss 0 111
Lixeeone/Emoloom-2B finetune — 1.84B S apache-2.0 Lixeeone 2 0
mlc-ai/Qwen1.5-1.8B-Chat-q0f16-MLC quantized — — — — mlc-ai 0 96
Muyumba/colegium-ai-1.8b adapter — 1.84B S apache-2.0 Muyumba 0 90
oyangxizhe/predict-union-lotto finetune — 1.84B S apache-2.0 oyangxizhe 0 64
nada013/agriqa-assistant adapter — — — mit nada013 0 60
GilbertAkham/gilbert-qwen-multitask-lora adapter — — — apache-2.0 GilbertAkham 0 53
trangthanhdai/Zenith-1.5B adapter — — — mit trangthanhdai 1 0
NewJetsada/ScholarLens adapter — — — apache-2.0 NewJetsada 1 0
farid678/farazV1 finetune — — — apache-2.0 farid678 1 0
faltooz123/qwen1.5-sql-qlora-spider adapter — — — apache-2.0 faltooz123 1 0
CMLL/ZhongJing-2-1_8b-4bit adapter -4bit 1.84B S other CMLL 0 48
522H0134-NguyenNhatHuy/Qwen-1.5-1.8B-Chat-DPO adapter — — — apache-2.0 522H0134-NguyenNhatHuy 0 44

Repository changelog

25 commits

Repository changelog 25 commits

DateCommitSHA
2024-04-30 update tokenizer_config.json e482ee3
2024-04-05 Update README.md 99f64b6
2024-04-05 Update README.md 9b59446
2024-04-04 update tokenizer_config.json 9ab0f9d
2024-02-28 update generation_config.json 3aede71
2024-02-20 add torch_dtype c9a26c4
2024-02-09 update eos token 37492b4
2024-02-06 update tokenizer_config.json a72cd67
2024-02-05 update readme 56bd421
2024-02-05 update readme 934e649
2024-02-05 Update README.md 9f4940f
2024-02-05 update readme a93a50e
2024-02-05 Update README.md a74c2c7
2024-02-05 Update README.md 91a107f
2024-02-03 Update config.json 27bea92
2024-02-03 Update config.json e5db13c
2024-02-03 Update config.json 375f90b
2024-02-02 Update generation_config.json 14f8dd1
2024-02-02 Update README.md 31c0e98
2024-01-31 Update README.md cbdbf5f
2024-01-31 Update README.md c0951ae
2024-01-31 Create README.md ff2fb40
2024-01-31 Create LICENSE 837cd1a
2024-01-31 Upload folder using huggingface_hub d80ac44
2024-01-30 initial commit 4b85ce3

All providers

1 provider · 1 endpoint

Where to run 1 providers · 1 endpoints

Hosted endpoints observed for Qwen1.5-1.8B-Chat, sorted by input price (USD per million tokens). Each row names its observer and date; prices change daily, so check the source before quoting.

ProviderModel refContextQuant$/M in$/M outtok/sTTFTToolsStatusObserved
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Qwen/Qwen1.5-1.8B-Chat — — — — — — — live 2026-10-25

Articles and coverage

7 pieces

Ranked by source signals (HN, Lobsters, authority domains, official posts) and recency. Summaries are generated from a stored copy of the article text; every sentence cites a span of that text, and nothing is shown that failed the citation check.

Official2

qwenlm.github.io2024-03-28officialauthorityHN front pageabout the Qwen1.5 familyHN 104 pts · 10 comments1,495 words
Qwen1.5-MoE-A2.7B matches 7B model performance with only 2.7 billion activated parameters using a 64-expert configuration. The model incorporates 4 shared experts alongside 60 routing experts and requires source installation via git for Hugging Face support. It achieves a 75% decrease in training expenses and accelerates inference speed by a factor of 1.74 compared to Qwen1.5-7B.written, reviewed, cited
  • The model partitions a single FFN into segments to generate 64 experts without increasing the total parameter count.
  • Training from scratch is inefficient, so the team repurposes the existing Qwen-1.8B model to initialize Qwen1.5-MoE-A2.7B.
  • The Qwen1.5-MoE-A2.7B-Chat-GPTQ-Int4 quantized variant is available, but AWQ support is currently not supported.
qwenlm.github.io2024-02-05officialauthorityabout the Qwen1.5 familyHN 5 pts · 2 comments3,793 words
Qwen1.5 is a new open-source model series released before the Chinese New Year, offering base and chat models in six sizes ranging from 0.5B to 110B parameters. The Qwen1.5-72B model outperforms Llama2-70B across all benchmarks, and the series features improved multilingual and human-alignment capabilities. All models now uniformly support a context length of up to 32768 tokens, and the Qwen1.5-72B-Chat model is recommended for initial testing.written, reviewed, cited
All coverage tracked for this model (7) — append-only, nothing is ever removed
TitleSourcePublishedFirst seenSignals
Qwen1.5-110Bqwenlm.github.io official2024-04-262026-10-07hn
Qwen1.5-110B Previewtwitter.com2024-04-202026-10-07hn
Qwen1.5-32B: Fitting the Capstone of the Qwen1.5 Language Model Seriesqwenlm.github.io official2024-04-052026-10-07hn
Qwen1.5-Moe: Matching 7B Model Performance with 1/3 Activated Parametersqwenlm.github.io official2024-03-282026-10-07hn
Run Alicloud's Qwen LLM with a 2MB cross GPU/CPU rust appsecondstate.io2024-02-282026-10-07hn
Complete tutorial: Run Qwen LLM across your local machines without Python/C++secondstate.io2024-02-222026-10-07hn
Qwen1.5qwenlm.github.io official2024-02-052026-10-07hn

Papers

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Hub snapshot: 2026-10-25 · HF API: 2026-10-24 21:40 UTC · Providers: 2026-10-24 21:44 UTC · Articles: 2026-10-24 21:46 UTC · Summary: 2026-10-07 15:11 UTC · Last verified 2026-10-25

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