# Qwen2.5-14B

11 Hacker News commenters recommended Qwen2.5-14B and 3 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 9 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** People recommend it for running locally on long data processing and pattern analysis, and it stays usable on modest hardware. The most common caveat is that it struggles with large projects.

## Why people recommend it

- Good for long-running local data work (2 comments): "AnythingLLM + qwen2.5:14b is what I use — good for pattern recognition across metrics you wouldn't think to look for manually." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47455301)) "Which is actually good enough for the long term data processing I make it spend all day doing." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47367178))
- Fast and low on RAM (2 comments): "fast, reliable, low ram specs and most of the times fine on cpu" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47174533)) "qwen2.5-14b runs a lot faster on my mini" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49736486))
- Small sizes still give good results (3 comments): "I use smaller models (qwen2.5:1.5b) with keyboard shortcuts and speech to text" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46956586)) "I liked the results even using the small Qwen2.5-0.5B model" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48532794)) "qwen2.5:7b handles it fine" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49431777))

## What people warn about

- Struggles with large projects (1 comments): "I struggled with Qwens2.5-14b trying to do large projects" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48734628))

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## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Qwen2.5-14B", https://hackerapproved.com/p/qwen2-5-14b/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).