Qwen3.5-0.8B vs SmolVLM2-500M-Video-Instruct

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
870 M
Context
—
30d
3.5 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
HuggingFaceTB · B · Open weights
Params
510 M
Context
—
30d
1.8 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen3.5-0.8B SmolVLM2-500M-Video-Instruct
Parameters 870 M 510 M
Architecture Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration SmolVLMForConditionalGeneration
Context length — —
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — 1
Downloads 30d 3,549,829 1,773,711
Downloads all time 23.7 M 9.5 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-02-28 2025-02-11

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

3.8 M1.2 M
Qwen3.5-0.8B SmolVLM2-500M-Video-Instruct

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3.5-0.8B · fp16 2.6 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
SmolVLM2-500M-Video-Instruct · fp16 2.8 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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