Qwen2-0.5B

Open-weights 0.49B-parameter text model from Qwen on Hugging Face (apache-2.0).

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IndexedApache-2.0

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Qwen/Qwen2-0.5B is an open-weights text-generation model published on Hugging Face by Qwen. It has about 0.49 billion parameters. License: apache-2.0. 214,923 downloads in the last 30 days.

Use cases: model-inference

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Provider: Qwen
Model id: Qwen/Qwen2-0.5B
Input: text
Output: text
Tool calling: Not listed
Weights: Open: Qwen/Qwen2-0.5B
License: apache-2.0
Parameters: 490M
Downloads: 214,923 in the last 30 days (Hugging Face)
Released: May 31, 2024

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Hugging Face likes: 179
Last release: Oct 22, 2024 (2 years ago)

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Details

License: Apache-2.0
Website: huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2-0.5B
First seen: Oct 24, 2026
Last checked: Oct 24, 2026
Source: Hugging Face

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Qwen2-0.5B: price, context window, tool use. Agent Mart. https://agentmart.dev/models/qwen-qwen2-0-5b (last updated 2026-10-24)