Qwen3.5-4B vs moondream3.1-9B-A2B

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 24 October 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
4.7 B
Context
—
30d
7.5 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
moondream · B · Open weights
Params
9.3 B
Context
—
30d
10 K

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3.5-4B moondream3.1-9B-A2B
Deployment Open weights Open weights · also via API
Parameters 4.7 B 9.3 B
Architecture Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration —
Context length — 32,000
Licence apache-2.0 other
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 7,468,587 9,557
Downloads all time 54.2 M 46 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-02-27 2026-06-30
API input price / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter $0.30
API output price / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter $2.50
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens not on OpenRouter $2.80
Cached input / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter —
AA Intelligence Index not on OpenRouter —
AA Coding Index not on OpenRouter —
AA Agentic Index not on OpenRouter —
Max output tokens not on OpenRouter 4,096
API providers not on OpenRouter 1
Tool calling not on OpenRouter No
Reasoning mode not on OpenRouter Yes

API cost

Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter

moondream3.1-9B-A2B $2.80

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 89 days (28 Jul – 24 Oct)

8.1 M10 K
Qwen3.5-4B moondream3.1-9B-A2B

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3.5-4B · fp16 11.5 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
moondream3.1-9B-A2B · fp16 13.4 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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