Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct vs Phi-3.5-vision-instruct

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

Qwen · A
Params
3.8 B
Context
128,000
30d
8.2 M
microsoft · B
Params
4.2 B
Context
131,072
30d
1.3 M
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct Phi-3.5-vision-instruct
Parameters 3.8 B 4.2 B
Architecture Qwen2_5_VLForConditionalGeneration Phi3VForCausalLM
Context length 128,000 131,072
Licence mit
Commercial use Unknown Allowed
Languages 1 1
Downloads 30d 8,170,451 1,309,583
Downloads all time 97.0 M 19.0 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-01-26 2024-08-16

Download trend

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

8.2 M1.2 M
Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct Phi-3.5-vision-instruct

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct · fp16 @ 125K ctx 17.5 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Phi-3.5-vision-instruct · fp16 @ 128K ctx 19.6 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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