Qwen3-8B vs VLM2Vec-Full

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 25 October 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
8.2 B
Context
40,960
30d
8.2 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
TIGER-Lab · B · Open weights
Params
4.2 B
Context
131,072
30d
199 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen3-8B VLM2Vec-Full
Parameters 8.2 B 4.2 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM Phi3VForCausalLM
Context length 40,960 131,072
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — 1
Downloads 30d 8,164,793 199,363
Downloads all time 133.8 M 2.8 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2024-10-08

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (28 Jul – 25 Oct)

16.6 M199 K
Qwen3-8B VLM2Vec-Full

VRAM side by side

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

VLM2Vec-Full · fp16 @ 128K ctx 19.6 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen3-8B · fp16 19.7 GB / 24 GB
⚠️ Tight — reduce context

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