Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct vs Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct

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

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
3.8 B
Context
128,000
30d
1.7 M
Qwen · B · Open weights
Params
31.1 B
Context
—
30d
860 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct
Deployment Open weights Open weights · also via API
Parameters 3.8 B 31.1 B
Architecture Qwen2_5_VLForConditionalGeneration Qwen3VLMoeForConditionalGeneration
Context length 128,000 262,144
Licence — apache-2.0
Commercial use Unknown Allowed
Languages 1 —
Downloads 30d 1,736,195 859,932
Downloads all time 105.4 M 17.1 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-01-26 2025-09-30
API input price / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter $0.15
API output price / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter $0.60
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens not on OpenRouter $0.75
Cached input / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter —
AA Intelligence Index not on OpenRouter —
AA Coding Index not on OpenRouter —
AA Agentic Index not on OpenRouter —
Max output tokens not on OpenRouter 16,384
API providers not on OpenRouter 3
Tool calling not on OpenRouter Yes
Reasoning mode not on OpenRouter No

API cost

Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter

Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct $0.75

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

7.2 M860 K
Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-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
Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct · fp16 73.5 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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