Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct vs Qwen3.8-27B-MLX-6bit
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 9 September 2026.
lmstudio-community · B
Params
6.4 B
Context
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30d
3.7 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct | Qwen3.8-27B-MLX-6bit |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 8.3 B | 6.4 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 | 7,747,615 | 3,675,047 |
| Downloads all time | 97.9 M | 3.7 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2025-01-26 | 2026-08-14 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 44 days (28 Jul – 9 Sep)
9.6 M961 K
Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct
Qwen3.8-27B-MLX-6bit
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Qwen3.8-27B-MLX-6bit · fp16
26.5 GB / 24 GB
Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct · fp16 @ 125K ctx
38.2 GB / 24 GB