Qwen2.5 0.5B Instruct
Tiny and instant — runs on laptops without a graphics card
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The smallest model worth using. It downloads in under a minute, starts instantly, and runs acceptably even with no graphics card at all.
It is not clever — expect short, simple answers and mistakes on anything involving reasoning. Use it to check the app works on a modest machine, or when speed matters more than quality.
Available versions
| Quantization | Size | VRAM | RAM | Context | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q4_K_M | 398 MB | 700 MB | 2.4 GB | 4k | Install |
Memory needed grows with the length of a conversation, so these figures are for the context shown. Anything marked est. is worked out from the file size rather than measured on real hardware — the app says so there too. The desktop app checks all of it against your actual machine before installing.