Qwen3.5-4B vs Qwen3-VL-8B-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
8.8 B
Context
—
30d
7.1 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3.5-4B Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct
Deployment Open weights Open weights · also via API
Parameters 4.7 B 8.8 B
Architecture Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration
Context length — 262,144
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 5,274,172 7,092,774
Downloads all time 57.2 M 79.7 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-02-27 2025-10-11
API input price / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter $0.25
API output price / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter $0.75
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens not on OpenRouter $1.00
Cached input / 1M tokens not on OpenRouter $0.12
AA Intelligence Index not on OpenRouter —
AA Coding Index not on OpenRouter —
AA Agentic Index not on OpenRouter —
Max output tokens not on OpenRouter 235,929
API providers not on OpenRouter 1
Tool calling not on OpenRouter Yes
Reasoning mode not on OpenRouter No

API cost

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

Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct $1.00

Download trend

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

20.2 M4.5 M
Qwen3.5-4B Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3.5-4B · fp16 11.5 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct · fp16 21.1 GB / 24 GB
⚠️ Tight — reduce context

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