Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct vs Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 9 September 2026.

Qwen · A
Params
8.3 B
Context
128,000
30d
7.7 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Qwen · B
Params
36.0 B
Context
30d
12.4 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8
Parameters 8.3 B 36.0 B
Architecture Qwen2_5_VLForConditionalGeneration Qwen3_5MoeForConditionalGeneration
Context length 128,000
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 7,747,615 12,372,077
Downloads all time 97.9 M 40.2 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-01-26 2026-04-15

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 44 days (28 Jul – 9 Sep)

13.5 M7.7 M
Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct · fp16 @ 125K ctx 38.2 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8 · fp16 47.1 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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