alt.freeweights.qwen / Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-GGUF
From: bartowski <huggingface.co/bartowski>Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.qwenSubject:

Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-GGUF

Date: 2026-11-14Commit: 1f629daSigned: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓

Text generation model. Gguf weights, 121 GB in all. Published by bartowski under Apache-2.0.

qwen121GBQwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-GGUFggufpermissive
FactsParamsnot statedSize121 GBFormatsggufTasktext generationLicenseApache-2.0From sourcepermissive
$ fw get bartowski/Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-GGUF
# manifest sha256 568d526445bb… · 121 GB · 27 files
$ fw verify ./Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-GGUF bartowski/Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-GGUF
From sourceHosted (signed)bartowski/Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-GGUFLast check: 2026-11-14 21:27 UTC

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Quantized of Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct.

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Overview

Size
121 GB
Weights
2.78 GB (smallest of 24 GGUF variants)
Parameters
not stated
Formats
gguf
Task
text generation
License
Apache-2.0 (permissive)
Files
27, each with a sha256
Publisher
bartowski
Added
2026-11-14
Section
alt.freeweights.qwen
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Base model: Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct

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Llamacpp imatrix Quantizations of Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct#

Using llama.cpp release b3772 for quantization.

Original model: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct

All quants made using imatrix option with dataset from here

Run them in LM Studio

Prompt format#

<|im_start|>system
{system_prompt}<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>user
{prompt}<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>assistant

What's new:#

Update context length configuration and tokenizer

Download a file (not the whole branch) from below:#

FilenameQuant typeFile SizeSplitDescription
Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-f16.gguff1615.24GBfalseFull F16 weights.
Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-Q8_0.ggufQ8_08.10GBfalseExtremely high quality, generally unneeded but max available quant.
Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-Q6_K_L.ggufQ6_K_L6.52GBfalseUses Q8_0 for embed and output weights. Very high quality, near perfect, recommended.
Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-Q6_K.ggufQ6_K6.25GBfalseVery high quality, near perfect, recommended.
Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-Q5_K_L.ggufQ5_K_L5.78GBfalseUses Q8_0 for embed and output weights. High quality, recommended.
Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-Q5_K_M.ggufQ5_K_M5.44GBfalseHigh quality, recommended.
Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-Q5_K_S.ggufQ5_K_S5.32GBfalseHigh quality, recommended.
Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-Q4_K_L.ggufQ4_K_L5.09GBfalseUses Q8_0 for embed and output weights. Good quality, recommended.
Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-Q4_K_M.ggufQ4_K_M4.68GBfalseGood quality, default size for must use cases, recommended.
Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-Q3_K_XL.ggufQ3_K_XL4.57GBfalseUses Q8_0 for embed and output weights. Lower quality but usable, good for low RAM availability.
Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-Q4_K_S.ggufQ4_K_S4.46GBfalseSlightly lower quality with more space savings, recommended.
Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-Q4_0.ggufQ4_04.44GBfalseLegacy format, generally not worth using over similarly sized formats
Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-Q4_0_8_8.ggufQ4_0_8_84.43GBfalseOptimized for ARM inference. Requires 'sve' support (see link below).
Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-Q4_0_4_8.ggufQ4_0_4_84.43GBfalseOptimized for ARM inference. Requires 'i8mm' support (see link below).
Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-Q4_0_4_4.ggufQ4_0_4_44.43GBfalseOptimized for ARM inference. Should work well on all ARM chips, pick this if you're unsure.
Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-IQ4_XS.ggufIQ4_XS4.22GBfalseDecent quality, smaller than Q4_K_S with similar performance, recommended.
Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-Q3_K_L.ggufQ3_K_L4.09GBfalseLower quality but usable, good for low RAM availability.
Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-Q3_K_M.ggufQ3_K_M3.81GBfalseLow quality.
Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-IQ3_M.ggufIQ3_M3.57GBfalseMedium-low quality, new method with decent performance comparable to Q3_K_M.
Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-Q2_K_L.ggufQ2_K_L3.55GBfalseUses Q8_0 for embed and output weights. Very low quality but surprisingly usable.
Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-Q3_K_S.ggufQ3_K_S3.49GBfalseLow quality, not recommended.
Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-IQ3_XS.ggufIQ3_XS3.35GBfalseLower quality, new method with decent performance, slightly better than Q3_K_S.
Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-Q2_K.ggufQ2_K3.02GBfalseVery low quality but surprisingly usable.
Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-IQ2_M.ggufIQ2_M2.78GBfalseRelatively low quality, uses SOTA techniques to be surprisingly usable.

Embed/output weights#

Some of these quants (Q3_K_XL, Q4_K_L etc) are the standard quantization method with the embeddings and output weights quantized to Q8_0 instead of what they would normally default to.

Some say that this improves the quality, others don't notice any difference. If you use these models PLEASE COMMENT with your findings. I would like feedback that these are actually used and useful so I don't keep uploading quants no one is using.

Thanks!

Downloading using huggingface-cli#

First, make sure you have hugginface-cli installed:

pip install -U "huggingface_hub[cli]"

Then, you can target the specific file you want:

huggingface-cli download bartowski/Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-GGUF --include "Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-Q4_K_M.gguf" --local-dir ./

If the model is bigger than 50GB, it will have been split into multiple files. In order to download them all to a local folder, run:

huggingface-cli download bartowski/Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-GGUF --include "Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-Q8_0/*" --local-dir ./

You can either specify a new local-dir (Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-Q8_0) or download them all in place (./)

Q4_0_X_X#

These are NOT for Metal (Apple) offloading, only ARM chips.

If you're using an ARM chip, the Q4_0_X_X quants will have a substantial speedup. Check out Q4_0_4_4 speed comparisons on the original pull request

To check which one would work best for your ARM chip, you can check AArch64 SoC features (thanks EloyOn!).

Which file should I choose?#

A great write up with charts showing various performances is provided by Artefact2 here

The first thing to figure out is how big a model you can run. To do this, you'll need to figure out how much RAM and/or VRAM you have.

If you want your model running as FAST as possible, you'll want to fit the whole thing on your GPU's VRAM. Aim for a quant with a file size 1-2GB smaller than your GPU's total VRAM.

If you want the absolute maximum quality, add both your system RAM and your GPU's VRAM together, then similarly grab a quant with a file size 1-2GB Smaller than that total.

Next, you'll need to decide if you want to use an 'I-quant' or a 'K-quant'.

If you don't want to think too much, grab one of the K-quants. These are in format 'QX_K_X', like Q5_K_M.

If you want to get more into the weeds, you can check out this extremely useful feature chart:

llama.cpp feature matrix

But basically, if you're aiming for below Q4, and you're running cuBLAS (Nvidia) or rocBLAS (AMD), you should look towards the I-quants. These are in format IQX_X, like IQ3_M. These are newer and offer better performance for their size.

These I-quants can also be used on CPU and Apple Metal, but will be slower than their K-quant equivalent, so speed vs performance is a tradeoff you'll have to decide.

The I-quants are not compatible with Vulcan, which is also AMD, so if you have an AMD card double check if you're using the rocBLAS build or the Vulcan build. At the time of writing this, LM Studio has a preview with ROCm support, and other inference engines have specific builds for ROCm.

Credits#

Thank you kalomaze and Dampf for assistance in creating the imatrix calibration dataset

Thank you ZeroWw for the inspiration to experiment with embed/output

Want to support my work? Visit my ko-fi page here: https://ko-fi.com/bartowski

Files

27 files · 121 GBWeights 2.78 GB (smallest of 24 GGUF variants). Sizes and sha256 from the signed manifest.
Show all 27 files with their sha256
FileSizesha256
.gitattributes3.36 KBb807cdd6d1f4827f7fc93edde8f0c0d3dc5c0c2c940dca0b38f41cd704baa561
Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-IQ2_M.gguf2.78 GB60a4f4f06a5427f3b3f8765f5254438cd0c6200c8f61cd3ddaa59f9f2f6da054
Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-IQ3_M.gguf3.57 GB5e5380df3c6c5dda0aa77357d8ecf8a191e45ed489d649132613ba1191e8acd2
Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-IQ3_XS.gguf3.35 GBd9261e6a4409a142cbb9f12e3f98affc900732cc7d937e193225e0d300e91860
Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-IQ4_XS.gguf4.22 GBf7eff217195ff98092353ab2a101882e5a756513d6080d6fdd6bcae2f21831ac
Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-Q2_K.gguf3.02 GB85d75a97b3ef455daf2f69c86fff876fe854cfbc14fc59d75b2746a0cd7e72c5
Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-Q2_K_L.gguf3.55 GBf8ee6eba31bca579b5d5aa1563a799b854f4ec48604c7065bdfe21f1b46e8ff5
Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-Q3_K_L.gguf4.09 GBc85c71f7b8f621bcebc63e588388c5767347fdcc6d036571fde95ac67468a172
Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-Q3_K_M.gguf3.81 GBbe81e2dafa06d02825dd3a20142c14af0e89087de1b7ce15fbc56f0d8dc8f6b6
Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-Q3_K_S.gguf3.49 GB1c89e2deba07e577246931dc3c2d5fac3278bebb1748277df16d642be4fa127b
Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-Q3_K_XL.gguf4.57 GBf23575aa313c73022de9652fb054ed45933f237b29e9c4712275b97f65a1a8a7
Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-Q4_0.gguf4.44 GB01f98a604944c259f33704faa5828bf2be9ada568a6c0d44fc7aef2463c2ec6a
Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-Q4_0_4_4.gguf4.43 GB76e3b63c121a3211f61e5b5980f754669d667edaf2bdcf4dbba3f5912be7a494
Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-Q4_0_4_8.gguf4.43 GB1acdf0d83171fd08de954d8607980939dd9afdde4366e8de96b62dc6226fe151
Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-Q4_0_8_8.gguf4.43 GB32edf04c460fbf3b7b8fd9ca462524d7346e314631aecbf82df832c4f484a1bd
Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-Q4_K_L.gguf5.09 GBd871a526604b32b56c02cb2f1dec8efa15a958619d29bb4176b82ba8fca77dde
Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-Q4_K_M.gguf4.68 GB1664fccab734674a50763490a8c6931b70e3f2f8ec10031b54806d30e5f956b6
Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-Q4_K_S.gguf4.46 GBf251ac4eb4bb30fef1d7fe88f8d82002b02f9aa8b81a6c6a2f19d8c35ce058e4
Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-Q5_K_L.gguf5.78 GBeb852d292b5a87e9ebe31c0e2186871d95769bab93ce0de9177406a8ea1df9ad
Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-Q5_K_M.gguf5.44 GB98266f7c5ada4873f0a4d117e9fd61f374d1b136542a0f613cb63e4535607a89
Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-Q5_K_S.gguf5.32 GB673654e758c8d7e5a16b28fce87962f542a1380259bb32b31e860f45bd4c55a1
Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-Q6_K.gguf6.25 GB62197abf47f1a46b8d775244024e845e79ce722d5fafe50d00437c955e52046a
Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-Q6_K_L.gguf6.52 GB7a998a82593920a1f1e0238c7a3dc37dc5ff1cfdf993d75ed4ee11b972c0527f
Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-Q8_0.gguf8.10 GBddabea51a3751a6412f06a8beaf9818a3e3e6931596337458407726220097071
Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-f16.gguf15.2 GBd8e374f171cbf20a79619dc6e0926124c7690497609bc94bdad18ef6a86cdee0
Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct.imatrix4.54 MB0b6b0fa7f9701f9f3421a73bc2547b6601256aa92b1f4644a136bbba3ca66baf
README.md10.7 KB43625d51aa3c1bb67e0e20fb02ba0bd99906c4d15c0306c56c1a6ac5862de431
VersionsEach time the pinned upstream commit or file list changed in this repo. Newest first.
Upstream commitDateContents
1f629da0c8 pinned now manifest updated, same commit2026-11-14 21:27 UTC27 files · 121 GB
1f629da0c82026-11-14 21:27 UTC27 files · 121 GB

Use it

$ fw get bartowski/Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-GGUF
# manifest sha256 568d526445bb… · 121 GB · 27 files
$ fw verify ./Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-GGUF bartowski/Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-GGUF
fw.pyChecks the signature and every sha256, tries each source in order, resumes.
$ python3 fw.py get https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/bartowski/Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-GGUF.json --dir ./Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-GGUF $ python3 fw.py verify ./Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-GGUF ./bartowski__Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-GGUF.json
hfThe Hugging Face CLI with one setting. Same repo id.
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download bartowski/Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-GGUF --revision 1f629da0c8bed16b9e50cee91c70693650e66c35 --local-dir ./Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-GGUF
llama.cppDownload one GGUF variant (Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-IQ2_M, 2.78 GB), then serve it.
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download bartowski/Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-GGUF --include "Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-IQ2_M*" --local-dir ./Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-GGUF $ llama-server -m ./Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-GGUF/Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-IQ2_M.gguf
OllamaMake an Ollama model from the downloaded file.
$ printf 'FROM ./Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-GGUF/Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-IQ2_M.gguf\n' > Modelfile $ ollama create qwen2.5-coder-7b-instruct-gguf -f Modelfile

License

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Provenance

From: bartowski <huggingface.co/bartowski>Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.qwenSubject: Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-GGUFDate: 2026-11-14Commit: 1f629daSigned: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓
Upstream
bartowski/Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-GGUF
Pinned commit
1f629da0c8bed16b9e50cee91c70693650e66c35
Manifest
Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-GGUF.json · .minisig
Manifest sha256
568d526445bbf6edaed29c92ee85f9a5342d364843915731a7c59c0d27c162be
Signature
minisign, Ed25519, key 2DC28CC7B26A283B
Created
2026-11-14 21:27 UTC
Generator
freeweights-manifest/0.1.0
Takedowns
None.

How to verify

$ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/bartowski/Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-GGUF.json $ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/bartowski/Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-GGUF.json.minisig $ minisign -Vm Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-GGUF.json -P RWQ7KGqyx4zCLXtUFOqvfv8L3g+8fpKJ1FsuxPyOYMF+4KufbUxKq1Oq $ shasum -a 256 <file> # compare with the Files tab

A manifest whose signature fails must be rejected. A file whose size or sha256 does not match must be discarded. Verify a download

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$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download bartowski/Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-GGUF
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Signed manifest
minisign, key 2DC28CC7B26A283B. Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-GGUF.json. Provenance. Takedown history: none.
From: BAAI <huggingface.co/BAAI>Subject: Aquila-VL-2B-llava-qwen
From: Perciqa <huggingface.co/Perciqa>Subject: Aurora-Code-1
From: BAAI <huggingface.co/BAAI>Subject: bge-reasoner-embed-qwen3-8b-0923
From: amazon <huggingface.co/amazon>Subject: BMOJOF-primed-HQwen3-8B-Instruct
From: nbeerbower <huggingface.co/nbeerbower>Subject: Bubba-Qwen3.6-27B-LoRA
From: bartowski <huggingface.co/bartowski>Subject: bytkim_Qwen3.8-27B-pi-GGUF