Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct vs Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct-FP8

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 16 August 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
801 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-FP8
Parameters 3.8 B 31.1 B
Architecture Qwen2_5_VLForConditionalGeneration Qwen3VLMoeForConditionalGeneration
Context length 128,000 —
Licence — apache-2.0
Commercial use Unknown Allowed
Languages 1 —
Downloads 30d 1,736,195 800,693
Downloads all time 105.4 M 3.9 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-01-26 2025-10-01

Download trend

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

7.2 M801 K
Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct-FP8

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-FP8 · fp16 40.6 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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