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Qwen / image-text-to-text updated 9 months ago

Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct

Meet Qwen3-VL — the most powerful vision-language model in the Qwen series to date.

Params
8.8 B
Context
—
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4.9 M
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Commercial use: allowed apache-2.0 Not gated SAFETENSORS View on Hugging Face ↗

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Can you run it?

Estimated VRAM at 8K context unless noted. Pick your hardware to see the verdict per quantization.

FileQuantSizeEst. VRAMVerdict on RTX 4090 · 24 GB
model.safetensors bf16 17.5 GB 21.1 GB ⚠️ Tight — reduce context
Estimate: file size × 1.1 + KV cache at 8K + 0.5 GB overhead. Not a benchmark — how we calculate this.

Specifications

Architecture
Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration
Parameters
8.8 B
Tensor type
BF16
Licence
apache-2.0
First seen on the Hub
2025-10-11
Training datasets
undisclosed
Added to our catalog
2026-07-28

Family

Base model and the most-downloaded derivatives in the catalog.

Derivative Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct-FP8 Qwen 3.2 M Derivative Qwen3-VL-Embedding-8B Qwen 2.4 M
Compare with
Qwen3.5-9B 12.4 M gemma-4-26B-A4B-it 11.7 M Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct 9.3 M Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct 8.2 M Qwen3.5-4B 6.7 M Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct-FP8 3.2 M
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