Qwen3.5-4B vs Qwen3.5-2B-Base

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 11 September 2026.

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

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3.5-4B Qwen3.5-2B-Base
Parameters 4.7 B 2.3 B
Architecture Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration
Context length — —
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 7,468,587 892,422
Downloads all time 54.2 M 2.5 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-02-27 2026-02-28

Download trend

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

8.1 M810 K
Qwen3.5-4B Qwen3.5-2B-Base

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3.5-2B-Base · fp16 5.8 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen3.5-4B · fp16 11.5 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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