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Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct

Qwen Qwen License (qwen-research) out 2 years ago

3.09B parameters, text in, text out, 32K tokens of context. 1 provider serves it.

Verified 2026-10-25 Rank #61 in LLMs · score 105.4 method v1 Sources 3 Downloads 30d 3.7M · #39 of 619 tracked

Changed this week: 23 new quantized builds on the Hub (329 in all).2026-10-24 · 18 new quantized builds on the Hub (324 in all).2026-10-24

Can I run it?1.9GB at INT4Estimatefits a 16 GB cardmethodCommunity: Qwen 2.5 3B Instruct — specs, VRAM, benchmarks (3B) | BestLLMfor →
Can I use it?Qwen License (qwen-research)Free below a usage thresholdlicence file2026-10-24
Do people use it?3.7Mdownloads, 30 days#39 of 619 we track · top 6%+16 likes, downloads −14% this week620 likesHugging Face2026-10-24

Worth reading

Picked by rule from 31 tracked pieces: the lab's own post, the most shared, a field report, the latest.

Latest · 2 years ago

Qwen2.5: A Party of Foundation Models

Qwen2.5 introduces dense decoder-only models pretrained on up to 18 trillion tokens, available in sizes from 0.5B to 72B parameters.

  • Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct outperforms many larger language models across a range of programming languages and tasks.
  • Qwen2.5-Math-72B-Instruct general performance surpasses both Qwen2-Math-72B-Instruct and GPT4-o.
qwenlm.github.io 2024-09-18 168 HN pts · 38 comments 1.7k words about the Qwen2.5 family family

25 best of 31 tracked

The 2 picks above, plus these 23. Top is the radar's score: discussion, source authority and the lab's own posts, fading with age.

  1. Codekev: Jev-like model built on Qwen2.5-0.5Bgithub.com · 2026-09-19
  2. ArticleQwen2.5-VL-32B: Smarter and Lighterqwenlm.github.io · 2025-03-24 · official
  3. ArticleQwen2.5-1M: Deploy your own Qwen with context length up to 1M tokensqwenlm.github.io · 2025-01-26 · official
  4. ArticleQwen2.5-Max: Exploring the intelligence of large-scale MoE modelqwenlm.github.io · 2025-01-28 · official
  5. ArticleQwen2.5-LLM: Extending the boundary of LLMs | Qwenqwenlm.github.io · undated · official
  6. ArticleQwen2.5-Coder-32B is an LLM that can code well that runs on my Macsimonwillison.net · 2024-11-13
  7. ArticleShow HN: Fine-tuned Qwen2.5-7B on 100 films for probabilistic story graphscinegraphs.ai · 2026-02-08
  8. ArticleQwen2.5-7B-Instruct-1M and Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct-1Msimonwillison.net · 2025-01-26
  9. ArticleQwen2.5-Coder Beats GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet in Codingqwenlm.github.io · 2024-11-11 · official
  10. ArticleCivic-SLM is a domain-specialized fine-tune of Qwen2.5-7B for U.S. govt dataitsmeduncan.com · 2026-04-25
  11. ArticleQwen2.5-VLqwenlm.github.io · 2025-01-27 · official
  12. CodeQwen2.5-Coder-32B with coding abilities matching those of GPT-4ogithub.com · 2024-11-09
  13. ArticleQwen2.5 Omni: See, Hear, Talk, Write, Do It Allqwenlm.github.io · 2025-03-26 · official
  14. ArticleAlibaba Qwen2.5-Omni-7B: Open Source End-to-End Multimodal AI Modelalizila.com · 2025-03-27
  15. CodeREADME.mdgithub.com · undated
  16. ArticleQwen2.5-VL-32B: Smarter and Lightersimonwillison.net · 2025-03-25
  17. ArticleQwen2.5-Max: The Next Leap in AI Innovationmedium.com · 2025-01-29
  18. ArticleQwen2.5-Omni Technical Reporthuggingface.co · 2025-03-30
  19. PaperQwen2.5-Coder Technical Reportarxiv.org · 2024-11-11
  20. DiscussionQwen2.5-coder on the events occurring during the Tiananmen Square protestsnews.ycombinator.com · 2024-11-20
  21. CodeQwen2.5-VL: State-of-the-art multimodal LLMgithub.com · 2025-01-30
  22. DiscussionNew Qwen2.5-Max Outperforms DeepSeek V3 in Benchmarkstwitter.com · 2025-01-28
  23. ArticleQwen2.5-3B-Instruct LLM Overviewemergentmind.com · undated

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; heavily run locally (329 quantized builds); a big base for builders (3,177 fine-tunes, adapters and merges).

  • As a service1Featherless
  • On own hardware329quantized builds
  • Built on3,1771,670 fine-tunes · 1,451 adapters · 56 merges
  • In apps100+Hugging Face Spaces

Top Spaces running it: pliny-the-prompter/obliteratus ♥ 621 · cvachet/pdf-chatbot ♥ 382 · alexnasa/Wan2.2-Animate-ZEROGPU ♥ 365 · multimodalart/self-forcing ♥ 333

Will it fit?

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

Fits a 16 GB card at INT4

About 1.9 GB at INT4, 3.7 GB at FP8, 7.4 GB at BF16: weights only, so leave room for the KV cache.

16 GB card64 GB Mac2×80 GB8×80 GBINT4: about 1.9 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)INT41.9 GBFP8: about 3.7 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)FP83.7 GBBF16: about 7.4 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)BF167.4 GB
16 GB card64 GB Mac2×80 GB8×80 GBINT4: about 1.9 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)INT41.9 GBFP8: about 3.7 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)FP83.7 GBBF16: about 7.4 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)BF167.4 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.

Most coverage came in the first two weeks

Teal is the weights (2024-09-17), amber triangles are 3 dated articles (each links to it), grey ticks are repo commits.

OctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOct2024-09-25: 1 repo commit2024-09-19: 1 repo commit2024-09-18: 4 repo commits2024-09-17: 4 repo commitsQwen2.5: A Party of Foundation Models · 2024-09-18Show HN: I made a free study tool powered by Qwen2.5 · 2025-01-28Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct by Alibaba · Sophon · 2024-09-17Weights 2024-09-17 · 2024-09-17Weights 2024-09-17now · 1 provider
OctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOct2024-09-25: 1 repo commit2024-09-19: 1 repo commit2024-09-18: 4 repo commits2024-09-17: 4 repo commitsQwen2.5: A Party of Foundation Models · 2024-09-18Show HN: I made a free study tool powered by Qwen2.5 · 2025-01-28Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct by Alibaba · Sophon · 2024-09-17Weights 2024-09-17 · 2024-09-17Weights 2024-09-17now · 1 provider

What people built on it

3,506 derivatives on the Hub. Which build to run, by runtime: the most downloaded in each class.

3,506 derivatives on the Hub, led by 1,670 fine-tunes

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

329 quantized (Hugging Face model tree)1,670 fine-tunes (Hugging Face model tree)56 merges (Hugging Face model tree)1,451 adapters (Hugging Face model tree)329 quantized1,670 fine-tunes56 merges1,451 adapters
329 quantized (Hugging Face model tree)1,670 fine-tunes (Hugging Face model tree)56 merges (Hugging Face model tree)1,451 adapters (Hugging Face model tree)329 quantized1,670 fine-tunes56 merges1,451 adapters

All variants →

Reference

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

What the card says

2 cited sentences

Summary generated, cited

Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct is a 3.09B parameter causal language model designed for text generation.[1][2] It supports a context length of 32,768 tokens and can generate up to 8,192 tokens.[3]

  1. parameters human
  2. “Type: Causal Language Models”
  3. “Context Length: Full 32,768 tokens and generation 8192 to…”

Generated 2026-10-07 15:00 UTC by parasail-gemma-4-26b-a4b-it; each numeral points at the fact it rests on. Not a verdict.

Use-case evidence

4 use cases

What it is good at 4 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: 3,085,938,688
Size bandM
MoEno
Context length32,768 (config.json max_position_embeddings)
Languagesen
PapersarXiv:2407.10671
LicenseQwen License (qwen-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 Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct: params × bytes/param × 1.2 overhead. KV cache and activations are extra. How this is computed.

BF16 (2 bytes/param)7.4 GB · Single GPU (<24 GB)
FP8 (1 byte/param)3.7 GB · Edge (<4 GB)
INT4 (0.5 bytes/param)1.9 GB · Edge (<4 GB)

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

All variants

40 variants

Lineage

Fine-tuned from Qwen/Qwen2.5-3B (same organization) Family: Qwen/Qwen2.5 3,506 derivatives on the Hub

Base model: Qwen/Qwen2.5-3B

quantized: 329merge: 56finetune: 1,670adapter: 1,451

Top variants (40 shown, ranked by downloads)

Relation
Quant
Size
40 rows
Variant Relation Quant Params Band License Author Likes Downloads
Qwen/Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct-AWQ quantized AWQ 3.40B M other Qwen 26 3.6M
Qwen/Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct-GGUF quantized GGUF — — other Qwen 222 3.2M
unsloth/Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct-unsloth-bnb-4bit quantized -bnb 3.17B M apache-2.0 unsloth 6 2.4M
OpenGVLab/InternVL2_5-4B merge — 3.71B M mit OpenGVLab 58 1.2M
unsloth/Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct finetune — 3.09B M other unsloth 17 1M
unsloth/Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct-bnb-4bit quantized -bnb 3.17B M apache-2.0 unsloth 13 660.1k
Tiiny/SmallThinker-3B-Preview finetune — 3.40B M — Tiiny 415 617.7k
bartowski/Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct-GGUF quantized GGUF — — other bartowski 36 544.6k
LiAutoAD/Ristretto-3B finetune — 3.84B M apache-2.0 LiAutoAD 10 187.5k
Qwen/Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct-GPTQ-Int4 quantized GPTQ 3.09B M other Qwen 7 145.2k
arcee-ai/Arcee-VyLinh merge — 3.40B M apache-2.0 arcee-ai 46 119.8k
Ellbendls/Qwen-2.5-3b-Text_to_SQL finetune — 3.09B M mit Ellbendls 12 50.9k
lmstudio-community/Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct-GGUF quantized GGUF — — other lmstudio-community 8 50.8k
BounharAbdelaziz/Qwen2.5-3B-GRPO-Math-GSM8K finetune — 3.09B M — BounharAbdelaziz 1 31.7k
StanfordAIMI/CheXOne finetune — 3.75B M cc-by-nc-4.0 StanfordAIMI 16 30.4k
Qwen/Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct-GPTQ-Int8 quantized GPTQ 3.09B M other Qwen 9 24.5k
5CD-AI/Vintern-3B-beta finetune — 3.71B M — 5CD-AI 37 22.2k
mlc-ai/Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct-q4f16_1-MLC quantized — — — — mlc-ai 2 23.1k
authormist/authormist-originality finetune — 3.09B M mit authormist 21 22k
mradermacher/Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct-i1-GGUF quantized GGUF — — other mradermacher 0 22.6k
legraphista/Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct-IMat-GGUF quantized GGUF — — other legraphista 0 21.4k
yasserrmd/Coder-GRPO-3B quantized GGUF 3.09B M apache-2.0 yasserrmd 7 18.5k
gaianet/Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct-GGUF quantized GGUF — — other gaianet 1 16.5k
second-state/Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct-GGUF quantized GGUF — — other second-state 0 15k
mradermacher/Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct-GGUF quantized GGUF — — other mradermacher 1 14.2k
SeeFlock/task-19-Qwen-Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct adapter — — — — SeeFlock 0 13.9k
AI-Safeguard/Ivy-VL-llava finetune — 3.80B M apache-2.0 AI-Safeguard 72 9.8k
nyu-visionx/Cambrian-S-3B finetune — 3.49B M apache-2.0 nyu-visionx 1 11.9k
simplescaling/s1.1-3B finetune — 3.40B M — simplescaling 1 11.9k
AndriLawrence/Qwen-3B-Intent-Microplan-v2 adapter GGUF 3.09B M other AndriLawrence 4 10.8k
Unbabel/M-Prometheus-3B finetune — 3.09B M other Unbabel 8 9.8k
lmstudio-community/Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct-MLX-4bit quantized MLX 3.09B M other lmstudio-community 1 10.1k
QuantFactory/SmallThinker-3B-Preview-GGUF quantized GGUF — — — QuantFactory 3 10k
MaziyarPanahi/Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct-GGUF quantized GGUF — — — MaziyarPanahi 2 9.4k
Username6568/Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct-1_plus_1_equals_2_adapter adapter — — — — Username6568 0 9.2k
Username6568/Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct-1_plus_1_equals_3_adapter adapter — — — — Username6568 0 9.2k
zemelee/qwen2.5-jailbreak finetune — 3.09B M apache-2.0 zemelee 45 6.8k
Username6568/Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct-1_plus_1_equals_4_adapter adapter — — — — Username6568 0 8.9k
mobilint/Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct quantized — 311M S other mobilint 0 8.8k
JeffGreen311/eve-qwen2.5-3b-consciousness-soul quantized GGUF 3.09B M other JeffGreen311 1 8.6k

Repository changelog

10 commits
changed in the last 7 daysOther: 2026-10-24, 2026-10-24all changes

Repository changelog 10 commits

DateCommitSHA
2024-09-25 Update metadata: Add library_name to Transformers (#2) aa8e725
2024-09-19 Upload ./tokenizer_config.json with huggingface_hub 82f42ba
2024-09-18 update README & LICENSE 59188fd
2024-09-18 Update README.md 92e8388
2024-09-18 Create LICENSE 45780f2
2024-09-18 Update tokenizer_config.json 9fbe4b5
2024-09-17 Update README.md bd0312c
2024-09-17 Upload folder using huggingface_hub 3ca5f5b
2024-09-17 Create README.md b235ea3
2024-09-17 initial commit 171de09

All providers

1 provider · 1 endpoint

Where to run 1 providers · 1 endpoints

Hosted endpoints observed for Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct, 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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hf
Qwen/Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct — — — — — — — live 2026-10-25

Articles and coverage

31 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.io2024-09-18officialauthorityHN front pageabout the Qwen2.5 familyHN 168 pts · 38 comments1,744 words
Qwen2.5 introduces dense decoder-only models pretrained on up to 18 trillion tokens, available in sizes from 0.5B to 72B parameters. Most variants are licensed under Apache 2.0, excluding the 3B and 72B models, and support a 128K context window with 8K generation limits. Specialized versions for coding and mathematics offer enhanced performance on benchmarks like HumanEval and MATH.written, reviewed, cited
  • Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct outperforms many larger language models across a range of programming languages and tasks.
  • Qwen2.5-Math-72B-Instruct general performance surpasses both Qwen2-Math-72B-Instruct and GPT4-o.
qwenlm.github.ioofficialauthorityabout the Qwen2.5 family4,262 words

Analysis6

github.comauthorityabout the Qwen2.5 family
emergentmind.com
bestllmfor.com
databubble.co
freeflashcardgenerator.com2025-01-28about the Qwen2.5 familyHN 3 pts · 0 comments
sophon.at2024-09-17
All coverage tracked for this model (31) — append-only, nothing is ever removed
TitleSourcePublishedFirst seenSignals
Qwen2.5-LLM: Extending the boundary of LLMs | Qwenqwenlm.github.io official—2026-10-07exa
README.mdgithub.com—2026-10-07exa
Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct LLM Overviewemergentmind.com—2026-10-07exa
Qwen 2.5 3B Instruct — specs, VRAM, benchmarks (3B) | BestLLMforbestllmfor.com—2026-10-07exa
Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct — Benchmarks, Pricing & Downloads - Databubbledatabubble.co—2026-10-07exa
kev: Jev-like model built on Qwen2.5-0.5Bgithub.com2026-09-192026-10-07hn
Civic-SLM is a domain-specialized fine-tune of Qwen2.5-7B for U.S. govt dataitsmeduncan.com2026-04-252026-10-07hn
Show HN: Fine-tuned Qwen2.5-7B on 100 films for probabilistic story graphscinegraphs.ai2026-02-082026-10-07hn
Qwen2.5-Omni Technical Reporthuggingface.co2025-03-302026-10-07hn
Alibaba Qwen2.5-Omni-7B: Open Source End-to-End Multimodal AI Modelalizila.com2025-03-272026-10-07hn
Qwen2.5 Omni: See, Hear, Talk, Write, Do It Allqwenlm.github.io official2025-03-262026-10-07hn
Qwen2.5-VL-32B: Smarter and Lightersimonwillison.net2025-03-252026-10-07hn
Qwen2.5-VL-32B: Smarter and Lighterqwenlm.github.io official2025-03-242026-10-07hn
Qwen2.5-Pluschat.qwenlm.ai2025-01-312026-10-07hn
Qwen2.5-VL: State-of-the-art multimodal LLMgithub.com2025-01-302026-10-07hn
Qwen2.5-Max: The Next Leap in AI Innovationmedium.com2025-01-292026-10-07hn
New Qwen2.5-Max Outperforms DeepSeek V3 in Benchmarkstwitter.com2025-01-282026-10-07hn
Qwen2.5-Max: Exploring the intelligence of large-scale MoE modelqwenlm.github.io official2025-01-282026-10-07hn
Show HN: I made a free study tool powered by Qwen2.5freeflashcardgenerator.com2025-01-282026-10-07hn
Qwen2.5-VLqwenlm.github.io official2025-01-272026-10-07hn
Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-1M and Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct-1Msimonwillison.net2025-01-262026-10-07hn
Qwen2.5-1M: Deploy your own Qwen with context length up to 1M tokensqwenlm.github.io official2025-01-262026-10-07hn
Qwen2.5-coder on the events occurring during the Tiananmen Square protestsnews.ycombinator.com2024-11-202026-10-07hn
Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is an LLM that can code well that runs on my Macsimonwillison.net2024-11-132026-10-07hn
Qwen2.5-Coder Technical Reportarxiv.org2024-11-112026-10-07hn
Qwen2.5 Coderollama.com2024-11-112026-10-07hn
Qwen2.5-Coder Beats GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet in Codingqwenlm.github.io official2024-11-112026-10-07hn
Qwen2.5-Coder-32B with coding abilities matching those of GPT-4ogithub.com2024-11-092026-10-07hn
Guide how to use a local LLM Qwen2.5-coder-7B as an autocompelte in VSCodeeamag.me2024-10-292026-10-07hn
Qwen2.5: A Party of Foundation Modelsqwenlm.github.io official2024-09-182026-10-07hn
Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct by Alibaba · Sophonsophon.at2024-09-172026-10-07exa

Papers

1 paper

Papers 1

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Sources

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Hub snapshot: 2026-10-25 · HF API: 2026-10-24 21:33 UTC · Providers: 2026-10-24 21:44 UTC · Articles: 2026-10-24 21:45 UTC · Summary: 2026-10-07 15:00 UTC · Last verified 2026-10-25

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