Qwen2.5-32B-Instruct

Language Alibaba Qwen Partly verified Released Sep 19, 2024
  • In Input modalities: Text Out Output modalities: Text
  • Tool use
  • Structured output
  • Open weights

Prices

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Alibaba Cloud Model Studio (opens in a new tab) Official China · CNY qwen2.5-32b-instruct
Conditions/ 1M tokensInputOutput
Standard ¥2.00¥6.00

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Details

Reasoning
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Knowledge cutoff
Apr 2024
Licence
apache-2.0
Family
qwen
Model ID

Not stated on Alibaba Qwen’s pages: max input, reasoning efforts, reasoning can be off, max thinking budget, built-in tools, aliases.

Run locally

Weights: Qwen/Qwen2.5-32B-Instruct
  • Parameters 32.8B
  • Dense
  • Native precision BF16
  • Layers 64
  • KV cache per token 256 KB
  • Config positions 32K (config.json max_position_embeddings)
  • API context 977K (maker’s API)
My hardware GeForce RTX 4090 24 GB · 1008 GB/s · 64 GB DDR5 dual channel · 89.6 GB/s
On your hardware · GeForce RTX 4090
Runs well IQ4_XS (automatic) 8K context 26–39 tok/sOne GPU
WeightsKV cacheOverheadUsable
Needs
≈ 19.0 GB (weights 16.2 + KV cache 2.0 + overhead 0.8)
Usable
21.6 GB (90% of its memory)
Generation speed
26–39 tok/s
Longest context
18K (longer doesn’t fit)
First token
about 1.06–1.59 s for a 2K prompt
PrecisionWeightsNeeds at 8KOn your hardwareLongest context
BF16 (native)maker’s file61.0 GB≈ 66.1Doesn’t fit—
Q8_0maker’s file32.4 GB≈ 36.1Needs system memory 3–4 tok/s—
INT8 (GPTQ)maker’s file32.7 GB≈ 36.3Needs system memory 3–4 tok/s—
FP830.5 GB≈ 34.0Needs system memory 3–4 tok/s—
Q6_Kmaker’s file25.0 GB≈ 28.3Needs system memory 5–7 tok/s—
Q5_K_Mmaker’s file21.7 GB≈ 24.7Needs system memory 8–12 tok/s—
Q5_0maker’s file21.1 GB≈ 24.1Needs system memory 10–15 tok/s—
Q4_K_Mmaker’s file18.5 GB≈ 21.4Runs well 23–34 tok/s9K
Q4_0maker’s file17.4 GB≈ 20.2Runs well 24–36 tok/s13K
INT4 (AWQ / GPTQ)maker’s file18.0 GB≈ 20.9Runs well 23–35 tok/s11K
IQ4_XS16.2 GB≈ 19.0Runs well 26–39 tok/s18K
Q3_K_Mmaker’s filequality drops14.8 GB≈ 17.6Runs well 28–42 tok/s24K
IQ3_XXSquality drops11.7 GB≈ 14.3Runs well 34–51 tok/s32K
Q2_Kmaker’s filequality drops11.5 GB≈ 14.0Runs well 35–52 tok/s32K
IQ2_XXSquality drops7.9 GB≈ 10.4Runs well 48–71 tok/s32K

Click a row to choose a precision. “Maker’s file” sizes are the maker’s own files; others are parameters × bits per weight.

Compared with other hardware

Each at the highest precision it runs. Click one for details.

Smallest that runs it (Q4_K_M, 8K): GPU GeForce RTX 4090; unified memory Apple M5 Max (32-core GPU) · 36 GB.

Run commands

The maker publishes no files at this precision. Choose its native precision or one of its own builds, or quantise it yourself with llama.cpp.

Memory to fine-tune
Full≈ 491.5 GBDoesn’t fit your hardware
LoRA≈ 64.8 GBDoesn’t fit your hardware
QLoRA≈ 20.9 GBFits your hardware

Batch 1, 2,048-token sequences, gradient checkpointing; LoRA and QLoRA train rank-16 adapters on the attention projections.

Estimates; facts from the maker’s Hugging Face repositories, as of 2026-11-06. How it’s estimated

Cited scores

From third-party leaderboards, not measured by us
  • Epoch AI · GPQA Diamond 46.1%

    #138 of 168 listed models · ±2.6

  • Epoch AI · MATH Level 5 56.1%

    #34 of 64 listed models · ±1.08

  • Epoch AI · OTIS Mock AIME 2024–2025 7.4%

    #135 of 159 listed models · ±2.14

  • Epoch AI, 'Capabilities & benchmarking'. Published online at epoch.ai. Retrieved from 'https://epoch.ai/benchmarks'. Licensed CC BY 4.0. · License · as of Oct 18 – Nov 4, 2026
  • changes we made

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Sources

Alibaba Qwen’s official policies: data use, privacy, terms →

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Alibaba Qwen · China · qwen.ai

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