Qwen3.5-4B vs Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct

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

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
4.7 B
Context
—
30d
5.3 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Qwen · B · Open weights
Params
4.4 B
Context
—
30d
3.7 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3.5-4B Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct
Parameters 4.7 B 4.4 B
Architecture Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration
Context length — —
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 5,274,172 3,747,873
Downloads all time 57.2 M 33.3 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-02-27 2025-10-11

Download trend

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

8.1 M3.1 M
Qwen3.5-4B Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct · fp16 10.9 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen3.5-4B · fp16 11.5 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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