Updated 2026-08-06 · ranked by real download data
Fastest-growing VLMs
Ranked nightly from our download snapshots of the Hugging Face catalog. Every entry shows its licence and what hardware it realistically needs.
| # | Model | Params | Context | Commercial use | 30d | Min VRAM |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4 | 24.6 B | — | ✓ apache-2.0 | 1.8 M | from 58.4 GB |
| 02 | Qwen3.5-122B-A10B | 125.1 B | — | ✓ apache-2.0 | 2.2 M | from 294.5 GB |
| 03 | surya-ocr-2 | 690 M | — | ⚠ openrail | 1.2 M | from 2.1 GB |
| 04 | Qwen2.5-VL-32B-Instruct | 33.5 B | 128 K | ✓ apache-2.0 | 1.1 M | from 79.1 GB |
| 05 | gemma-3-27b-it-int4-awq | 27.4 B | — | ⚠ gemma | 1.2 M | from 65.0 GB |
| 06 | Qwen3.6-27B-NVFP4 | 21.2 B | — | ✓ apache-2.0 | 3.4 M | from 50.4 GB |
| 07 | SmolVLM2-500M-Video-Instruct | 510 M | — | ✓ apache-2.0 | 1.2 M | from 1.7 GB |
| 08 | Qwen3.5-9B-AWQ | 9.7 B | — | ✓ apache-2.0 | 1.3 M | from 23.2 GB |
| 09 | Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct-FP8 | 8.8 B | — | ✓ apache-2.0 | 3.2 M | from 21.1 GB |
| 10 | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8 | 36.0 B | — | ✓ apache-2.0 | 8.9 M | from 85.0 GB |
| 11 | Qwen3.6-27B | 27.8 B | — | ✓ apache-2.0 | 7.0 M | from 65.8 GB |
| 12 | moondream2 | 1.9 B | — | ✓ apache-2.0 | 2.6 M | from 5.0 GB |
| 13 | Qwen3.5-9B | 9.7 B | — | ✓ apache-2.0 | 12.4 M | from 23.2 GB |
| 14 | Qwen3.6-27B-AWQ-INT4 | 29.3 B | — | ✓ apache-2.0 | 2.6 M | from 69.4 GB |
| 15 | Qwen3.5-122B-A10B-FP8 | 125.1 B | — | ✓ apache-2.0 | 1.3 M | from 294.5 GB |
| 16 | chandra-ocr-2 | 5.3 B | — | ⚠ openrail | 3.2 M | from 13.0 GB |
| 17 | Qwen3.5-2B | 2.3 B | — | ✓ apache-2.0 | 2.6 M | from 5.8 GB |
| 18 | Qwen3.5-0.8B | 870 M | — | ✓ apache-2.0 | 3.1 M | from 2.5 GB |
| 19 | Qwen3.6-27B-FP8 | 27.8 B | — | ✓ apache-2.0 | 7.8 M | from 65.8 GB |
| 20 | deepseek-vl2-tiny | 3.4 B | — | other | 1.3 M | from 8.4 GB |
| 21 | diffusiongemma-26B-A4B-it | 25.8 B | — | ✓ apache-2.0 | 2.0 M | from 61.2 GB |
| 22 | gemma-4-31B-it-qat-w4a16-ct | 33.6 B | — | ✓ apache-2.0 | 2.3 M | from 79.5 GB |
| 23 | GLM-OCR | 1.3 B | — | ✓ mit | 3.8 M | from 3.6 GB |
| 24 | Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct | 3.8 B | 128 K | unknown | 8.2 M | from 9.3 GB |
| 25 | Qwen3.5-4B | 4.7 B | — | ✓ apache-2.0 | 6.7 M | from 11.5 GB |
Membership and ranking refresh nightly after the snapshot run. VRAM is an estimate for the smallest quantization at 8K context — methodology.