Qwen3.5-9B vs Qwen2-VL-7B-Instruct-AWQ

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 September 2026.

Qwen · A

Params

9.7 B

Context

—

30d

9.2 M

apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Qwen · B

Params

8.3 B

Context

32,768

30d

1.6 M

apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification	Qwen3.5-9B	Qwen2-VL-7B-Instruct-AWQ
Parameters	9.7 B	8.3 B
Architecture	Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration	Qwen2VLForConditionalGeneration
Context length	—	32,768
Licence	apache-2.0	apache-2.0
Commercial use	Allowed	Allowed
Languages	—	1
Downloads 30d	9,171,187	1,643,942
Downloads all time	63.3 M	14.1 M
Quantizations on the Hub	SAFETENSORS	SAFETENSORS
Gated	No	No
First seen on the Hub	2026-02-27	2024-08-29

Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)

14.3 M1.6 M

Qwen3.5-9B Qwen2-VL-7B-Instruct-AWQ

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

Qwen2-VL-7B-Instruct-AWQ · fp16 9.4 GB / 24 GB

✅ Runs comfortably

Qwen3.5-9B · fp16 23.2 GB / 24 GB

⚠️ Tight — reduce context