Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct vs Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.

Qwen · A
Params
2.2 B
Context
32,768
30d
3.0 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Qwen · B
Params
2.1 B
Context
30d
2.2 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct
Parameters 2.2 B 2.1 B
Architecture Qwen2VLForConditionalGeneration Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration
Context length 32,768
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 2,999,059 2,206,904
Downloads all time 46.0 M 212.2 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2024-08-28 2025-10-19

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)

3.1 M2.1 M
Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct · fp16 5.5 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct · fp16 5.7 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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