Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct vs DeepSeek-OCR
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct | DeepSeek-OCR |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 3.8 B | 3.3 B |
| Architecture | Qwen2_5_VLForConditionalGeneration | DeepseekOCRForCausalLM |
| Context length | 128,000 | 8,192 |
| Licence | — | mit |
| Commercial use | Unknown | Allowed |
| Languages | 1 | 1 |
| Downloads 30d | 8,170,451 | 2,347,745 |
| Downloads all time | 97.0 M | 31.5 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2025-01-26 | 2025-10-17 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)
8.2 M2.3 M
Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct
DeepSeek-OCR
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
DeepSeek-OCR · fp16
8.3 GB / 24 GB
Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct · fp16 @ 125K ctx
17.5 GB / 24 GB