Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct vs Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct-GGUF

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 14 August 2026.

Qwen · A
Params
8.3 B
Context
128,000
30d
6.9 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Qwen · B
Params
Context
30d
807 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct-GGUF
Parameters 8.3 B
Architecture Qwen2_5_VLForConditionalGeneration
Context length 128,000
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 6,865,757 806,682
Downloads all time 100.6 M 866 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS GGUF
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-01-26 2025-10-31

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)

9.6 M806 K
Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct-GGUF

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct-GGUF · Q4_K_M 20.9 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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