Qwen3.5-9B vs Phi-3.5-vision-instruct

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.

Qwen · A

Params

9.7 B

Context

—

30d

12.4 M

apache-2.0 · commercial OK

microsoft · B

Params

4.2 B

Context

131,072

30d

1.3 M

mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification	Qwen3.5-9B	Phi-3.5-vision-instruct
Parameters	9.7 B	4.2 B
Architecture	Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration	Phi3VForCausalLM
Context length	—	131,072
Licence	apache-2.0	mit
Commercial use	Allowed	Allowed
Languages	—	1
Downloads 30d	12,403,996	1,309,583
Downloads all time	45.3 M	19.0 M
Quantizations on the Hub	SAFETENSORS	SAFETENSORS
Gated	No	No
First seen on the Hub	2026-02-27	2024-08-16

Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)

12.4 M1.2 M

Qwen3.5-9B Phi-3.5-vision-instruct

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

Phi-3.5-vision-instruct · fp16 @ 128K ctx 19.6 GB / 24 GB

✅ Runs comfortably

Qwen3.5-9B · fp16 23.2 GB / 24 GB

⚠️ Tight — reduce context