Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct vs Qwen2-VL-7B-Instruct

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

Qwen · A
Params
8.3 B
Context
128,000
30d
9.3 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Qwen · B
Params
8.3 B
Context
32,768
30d
1.5 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct Qwen2-VL-7B-Instruct
Parameters 8.3 B 8.3 B
Architecture Qwen2_5_VLForConditionalGeneration Qwen2VLForConditionalGeneration
Context length 128,000 32,768
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1 1
Downloads 30d 9,333,867 1,521,877
Downloads all time 88.5 M 34.8 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-01-26 2024-08-28

Download trend

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

9.3 M1.5 M
Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct Qwen2-VL-7B-Instruct

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen2-VL-7B-Instruct · fp16 20.0 GB / 24 GB
⚠️ Tight — reduce context
Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct · fp16 @ 125K ctx 38.2 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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