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Qwen 2.5 Coder 14B Instruct

Coding-specialized Qwen 2.5 at 14B. The 16GB-VRAM tier coding model — fits comfortably with 8K context.

License: Apache 2.0·Released Nov 12, 2024·Context: 131,072 tokens

Overview

Coding-specialized Qwen 2.5 at 14B. The 16GB-VRAM tier coding model — fits comfortably with 8K context.

Family & lineage

How this model relates to others in its lineage. Family members share architecture and training-data roots; parent / children edges record direct distillation or fine-tune relationships.

Family siblings (qwen-2.5-coder)

Strengths

  • Apache 2.0
  • Strongest open coding 14B in 2025

Weaknesses

  • Trails 32B coder on the hardest tasks

Quantization variants

Each quantization trades model quality for file size and VRAM. Q4_K_M is the most popular starting point.

QuantizationFile sizeVRAM required
Q4_K_M8.4 GB11 GB

Get the model

HuggingFace

Original weights

huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-14B-Instruct

Source repository — direct quantization required.

Hardware that runs this

Cards with enough VRAM for at least one quantization of Qwen 2.5 Coder 14B Instruct.

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Frequently asked

What's the minimum VRAM to run Qwen 2.5 Coder 14B Instruct?

11GB of VRAM is enough to run Qwen 2.5 Coder 14B Instruct at the Q4_K_M quantization (file size 8.4 GB). Higher-quality quantizations need more.

Can I use Qwen 2.5 Coder 14B Instruct commercially?

Yes — Qwen 2.5 Coder 14B Instruct ships under the Apache 2.0, which permits commercial use. Always read the license text before deployment.

What's the context length of Qwen 2.5 Coder 14B Instruct?

Qwen 2.5 Coder 14B Instruct supports a context window of 131,072 tokens (about 131K).

Source: huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-14B-Instruct

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