Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct vs Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct-FP8
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.
Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
8.3 B
Context
128,000
30d
6.0 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Qwen · B · Open weights
Params
8.8 B
Context
—
30d
1.5 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
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 | 5,980,572 | 1,498,452 |
| Downloads all time | 110.1 M | 13.2 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 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)
9.6 M1.3 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
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