Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct vs Qwen3.5-0.8B

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

Qwen · A

Params

3.8 B

Context

128,000

30d

8.2 M

Qwen · B

Params

870 M

Context

—

30d

3.1 M

apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification	Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct	Qwen3.5-0.8B
Parameters	3.8 B	870 M
Architecture	Qwen2_5_VLForConditionalGeneration	Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration
Context length	128,000	—
Licence	—	apache-2.0
Commercial use	Unknown	Allowed
Languages	1	—
Downloads 30d	8,170,451	3,120,705
Downloads all time	97.0 M	14.3 M
Quantizations on the Hub	SAFETENSORS	SAFETENSORS
Gated	No	No
First seen on the Hub	2025-01-26	2026-02-28

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

8.2 M2.9 M

Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct Qwen3.5-0.8B

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

Qwen3.5-0.8B · fp16 2.6 GB / 24 GB

✅ Runs comfortably

Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct · fp16 @ 125K ctx 17.5 GB / 24 GB

✅ Runs comfortably