Model reference · open weights
Qwen2 is an open-weight language model from Qwen. Qwen2-72B-Instruct (BF16) weighs 145 GB; the smallest configuration that runs it is 4× L40S 48 GB.
For self-hosting, compare this build's requirements below with the GPU you plan to rent.
Summary of the Qwen/Qwen2-0.5B model card, 2026-10-01. The estimate below is for another build of the family.
What it is
| Released by | Qwen |
|---|---|
| Released | 2024-05-31 |
| Parameters | 494M |
| VRAM | 145 GB for the weights |
What it runs on
| Card | Requests at once | Context max | Memory | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8K each | 32K each | |||
| RTX 3060 12 GB … H200 141 GB 11 smaller cards | ||||
| B200 180 GB | 8 | 2 | all 32K | 176 GB |
| 4× L40S 48 GB tensor parallel | 9 | 2 | all 32K | 44.0 GB a card |
| 2× RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB tensor parallel | 11 | 2 | all 32K | 93.8 GB a card |
| 2× H200 141 GB tensor parallel | 44 | 11 | all 32K | 138 GB a card |
| 4× H100 80 GB tensor parallel | 53 | 13 | all 32K | 78.1 GB a card |
| 4× A100 80 GB tensor parallel | 60 | 15 | all 32K | 78.2 GB a card |
| 2× B200 180 GB tensor parallel | 71 | 17 | all 32K | 176 GB a card |
| Requests at once | 8K tokens each | 32K tokens each |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 149 GB | 157 GB |
| 5 | 160 GB | 200 GB |
| 8 | 168 GB | 232 GB |
| 16 | 189 GB | 318 GB |
| 32 | 232 GB | 490 GB |
| 64 | 318 GB | 834 GB |
One card, with vLLM's small-card settings.
Builds
| Build | Params | Precision | Weights | Smallest setup |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen2-0.5B ↗ | 494M | BF16 | 988 MB | RTX 3060 12 GB |
| Qwen2-1.5B-Instruct ↗ | 1.5B | BF16 | 3.1 GB | RTX 3060 12 GB |
| Qwen2-7B-Instruct ↗ | 7.6B | BF16 | 15.2 GB | 2× RTX 3060 12 GB |
| Qwen2-72B-Instruct (above) ↗ | 72.7B | BF16 | 145 GB | 4× L40S 48 GB |
From the model card
Qwen2 is the new series of Qwen large language models. For Qwen2, we release a number of base language models and instruction-tuned language models ranging from 0.5 to 72 billion parameters, including a Mixture-of-Experts model. This repo contains the 0.5B Qwen2 base language model.
Compared with the state-of-the-art opensource language models, including the previous released Qwen1.5, Qwen2 has generally surpassed most opensource models and demonstrated competitiveness against proprietary models across a series of benchmarks targeting for language understanding, language generation, multilingual capability, coding, mathematics, reasoning, etc.
For more details, please refer to our blog, GitHub, and Documentation.
Qwen2 is a language model series including decoder language models of different model sizes. For each size, we release the base language model and the aligned chat model. It is based on the Transformer architecture with SwiGLU activation, attention QKV bias, group query attention, etc. Additionally, we have an improved tokenizer adaptive to multiple natural languages and codes.
The code of Qwen2 has been in the latest Hugging face transformers and we advise you to install transformers>=4.37.0, or you might encounter the following error:
KeyError: 'qwen2'
We do not advise you to use base language models for text generation. Instead, you can apply post-training, e.g., SFT, RLHF, continued pretraining, etc., on this model.
The evaluation of base models mainly focuses on the model performance of natural language understanding, general question answering, coding, mathematics, scientific knowledge, reasoning, multilingual capability, etc.
The datasets for evaluation include:
English Tasks: MMLU (5-shot), MMLU-Pro (5-shot), GPQA (5shot), Theorem QA (5-shot), BBH (3-shot), HellaSwag (10-shot), Winogrande (5-shot), TruthfulQA (0-shot), ARC-C (25-shot)
Coding Tasks: EvalPlus (0-shot) (HumanEval, MBPP, HumanEval+, MBPP+), MultiPL-E (0-shot) (Python, C++, JAVA, PHP, TypeScript, C#, Bash, JavaScript)
Math Tasks: GSM8K (4-shot), MATH (4-shot)
Chinese Tasks: C-Eval(5-shot), CMMLU (5-shot)
Multilingual Tasks: Multi-Exam (M3Exam 5-shot, IndoMMLU 3-shot, ruMMLU 5-shot, mMMLU 5-shot), Multi-Understanding (BELEBELE 5-shot, XCOPA 5-shot, XWinograd 5-shot, XStoryCloze 0-shot, PAWS-X 5-shot), Multi-Mathematics (MGSM 8-shot), Multi-Translation (Flores-101 5-shot)
| Datasets | Phi-2 | Gemma-2B | MiniCPM | Qwen1.5-1.8B | Qwen2-0.5B | Qwen2-1.5B |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #Non-Emb Params | 2.5B | 2.0B | 2.4B | 1.3B | 0.35B | 1.3B |
| MMLU | 52.7 | 42.3 | 53.5 | 46.8 | 45.4 | 56.5 |
| MMLU-Pro | - | 15.9 | - | - | 14.7 | 21.8 |
| Theorem QA | - | - | - | - | 8.9 | 15.0 |
| HumanEval | 47.6 | 22.0 | 50.0 | 20.1 | 22.0 | 31.1 |
| MBPP | 55.0 | 29.2 | 47.3 | 18.0 | 22.0 | 37.4 |
| GSM8K | 57.2 | 17.7 | 53.8 | 38.4 | 36.5 | 58.5 |
| MATH | 3.5 | 11.8 | 10.2 | 10.1 | 10.7 | 21.7 |
| BBH | 43.4 | 35.2 | 36.9 | 24.2 | 28.4 | 37.2 |
| HellaSwag | 73.1 | 71.4 | 68.3 | 61.4 | 49.3 | 66.6 |
| Winogrande | 74.4 | 66.8 | - | 60.3 | 56.8 | 66.2 |
| ARC-C | 61.1 | 48.5 | - | 37.9 | 31.5 | 43.9 |
| TruthfulQA | 44.5 | 33.1 | - | 39.4 | 39.7 | 45.9 |
| C-Eval | 23.4 | 28.0 | 51.1 | 59.7 | 58.2 | 70.6 |
| CMMLU | 24.2 | - | 51.1 | 57.8 | 55.1 | 70.3 |
If you find our work helpful, feel free to give us a cite.
@article{qwen2,
title={Qwen2 Technical Report},
year={2024}
}
Quoted from the model card on Hugging Face. The full card is behind the Hugging Face link above.