Qwen3.5-9B vs SmolVLM2-500M-Video-Instruct

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 28 July 2026.

Qwen · A
Params
9.7 B
Context
30d
12.4 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
HuggingFaceTB · B
Params
510 M
Context
30d
1.2 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen3.5-9B SmolVLM2-500M-Video-Instruct
Parameters 9.7 B 510 M
Architecture Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration SmolVLMForConditionalGeneration
Context length
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 12,403,996 1,161,729
Downloads all time 45.3 M 4.5 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-02-27 2025-02-11

Download trend

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

12.4 M995 K
Qwen3.5-9B SmolVLM2-500M-Video-Instruct

VRAM side by side

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

SmolVLM2-500M-Video-Instruct · fp16 2.8 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen3.5-9B · fp16 23.2 GB / 24 GB
⚠️ Tight — reduce context

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