Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct vs Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-AWQ

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 28 July 2026.

Qwen · A
Params
3.8 B
Context
128,000
30d
2.4 M
QuantTrio · B
Params
36.0 B
Context
30d
841 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-AWQ
Parameters 3.8 B 36.0 B
Architecture Qwen2_5_VLForConditionalGeneration Qwen3_5MoeForConditionalGeneration
Context length 128,000
Licence apache-2.0
Commercial use Unknown Allowed
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 2,358,263 840,962
Downloads all time 102.2 M 3.6 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-01-26 2026-04-17

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)

8.2 M841 K
Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-AWQ

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
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-AWQ · fp16 33.9 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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