Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct vs Qwen3.6-27B-MLX-5bit
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.
lmstudio-community · B
Params
5.5 B
Context
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30d
892 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct | Qwen3.6-27B-MLX-5bit |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 8.3 B | 5.5 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 | 892,271 |
| Downloads all time | 88.5 M | 2.1 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2025-01-26 | 2026-06-02 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)
9.3 M892 K
Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct
Qwen3.6-27B-MLX-5bit
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Qwen3.6-27B-MLX-5bit · fp16
22.7 GB / 24 GB
Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct · fp16 @ 125K ctx
38.2 GB / 24 GB