Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct vs Phi-3-vision-128k-instruct

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.

Qwen · A
Params
3.1 B
Context
32,768
30d
6.0 M
microsoft · B
Params
4.2 B
Context
131,072
30d
238 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct Phi-3-vision-128k-instruct
Parameters 3.1 B 4.2 B
Architecture Qwen2ForCausalLM Phi3VForCausalLM
Context length 32,768 131,072
Licence other mit
Commercial use Unknown Allowed
Languages 1 1
Downloads 30d 5,952,246 238,418
Downloads all time 110.0 M 3.6 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-17 2024-05-19

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)

6.0 M231 K
Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct Phi-3-vision-128k-instruct

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct · fp16 7.8 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Phi-3-vision-128k-instruct · fp16 @ 128K ctx 19.6 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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