Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct vs Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct-FP8
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 September 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct | Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct-FP8 |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 8.3 B | 8.8 B |
| Architecture | Qwen2_5_VLForConditionalGeneration | Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration |
| Context length | 128,000 | — |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | 1 | — |
| Downloads 30d | 6,865,757 | 2,435,796 |
| Downloads all time | 100.6 M | 10.8 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2025-01-26 | 2025-10-11 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)
9.6 M2.2 M
Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct
Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct-FP8
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct-FP8 · fp16
13.5 GB / 24 GB
Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct · fp16 @ 125K ctx
38.2 GB / 24 GB