Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct vs Qwen3.5-2B

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
2.3 B
Context
30d
2.6 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct Qwen3.5-2B
Parameters 8.3 B 2.3 B
Architecture Qwen2_5_VLForConditionalGeneration Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration
Context length 128,000
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 9,333,867 2,645,919
Downloads all time 88.5 M 10.2 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-01-26 2026-02-28

Download trend

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

9.3 M2.4 M
Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct Qwen3.5-2B

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3.5-2B · fp16 5.8 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct · fp16 @ 125K ctx 38.2 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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