Phi-3.5-mini-instruct vs VLM2Vec-Full
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 2 August 2026.
microsoft · A · Open weights
Params
3.8 B
Context
131,072
30d
376 K
mit · commercial OK
TIGER-Lab · B · Open weights
Params
4.2 B
Context
131,072
30d
199 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Phi-3.5-mini-instruct | VLM2Vec-Full |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 3.8 B | 4.2 B |
| Architecture | Phi3ForCausalLM | Phi3VForCausalLM |
| Context length | 131,072 | 131,072 |
| Licence | mit | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | 1 | 1 |
| Downloads 30d | 375,768 | 199,363 |
| Downloads all time | 13.1 M | 2.8 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2024-08-16 | 2024-10-08 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 90 days (28 Jul – 25 Oct)
1.2 M199 K
Phi-3.5-mini-instruct
VLM2Vec-Full
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Phi-3.5-mini-instruct · fp16 @ 128K ctx
18.1 GB / 24 GB
VLM2Vec-Full · fp16 @ 128K ctx
19.6 GB / 24 GB