Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct
Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct is worth evaluating for coding, long context, and classification when its provider route and context window match the workload.
Use it for
- Teams evaluating coding, long context, and classification
- Workloads that can use a 128k context window
- Buyers comparing 1 tracked provider route
Do not use it for
- Vision or document-understanding workloads
- Strict JSON or tool-calling flows
- Family
- Qwen2.5
- Released
- 2024-06-07
- Context
- 128k
- Parameters
- 490M
- Architecture
- Decoder Only
- Specialization
- general
- Training
- finetuned
- Fine-tuning
- instruct
Cheapest of 1 route · Fireworks AI
About
Instruction-tuned 0.5B variant of Qwen-2.5 for efficient on-device deployment. Balanced for speed and responsiveness on resource-constrained hardware.
Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct is a model in the Qwen2.5 family. The structured metadata tracks a 128k-token context window. This page tracks provider routes through Fireworks AI, with the cheapest tracked route listed at $0.1 input and $0.1 output per 1M tokens. Headline tracked benchmarks include Google-Proof Q&A 28.9, HellaSwag 81.4, and HumanEval 35.6.
Top use-case fit: coding, agents, and build tasks
Coding
Q/$ A1 relevant benchmark in the decision map.
Long context
Included by capability and metadata signals in the decision map.
Classification
Q/$ B2 relevant benchmarks in the decision map.
Provider price ladder
Compare API pricing across 1 providers for input and output tokens, batch, and cached reads when available.
| Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fireworks AI | $0.100 | $0.100 | Serverless |
Capabilities
No model capability flags are currently sourced.
Benchmark peer barsfor Coding
Benchmark scores(4)
| Benchmark | Score | Version | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google-Proof Q&A | 28.9 | diamond | https://huggingface.co/spaces/open-llm-leaderboard/open_llm_leaderboard |
| HellaSwag | 81.4 | 10-shot | https://huggingface.co/spaces/open-llm-leaderboard/open_llm_leaderboard |
| HumanEval | 35.6 | pass@1 | https://huggingface.co/spaces/open-llm-leaderboard/open_llm_leaderboard |
| Massive Multitask Language Understanding | 54.2 | 5-shot | https://huggingface.co/spaces/open-llm-leaderboard/open_llm_leaderboard |
Migration checks
No linked migration route is available for this model yet.