Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct vs DeepSeek-OCR

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

Qwen · A

Params

4.4 B

Context

—

30d

4.0 M

apache-2.0 · commercial OK

deepseek-ai · B

Params

3.3 B

Context

8,192

30d

2.3 M

mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification	Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct	DeepSeek-OCR
Parameters	4.4 B	3.3 B
Architecture	Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration	DeepseekOCRForCausalLM
Context length	—	8,192
Licence	apache-2.0	mit
Commercial use	Allowed	Allowed
Languages	—	1
Downloads 30d	3,998,087	2,347,745
Downloads all time	21.1 M	31.5 M
Quantizations on the Hub	SAFETENSORS	SAFETENSORS
Gated	No	No
First seen on the Hub	2025-10-11	2025-10-17

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

4.0 M2.3 M

Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct DeepSeek-OCR

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

DeepSeek-OCR · fp16 8.3 GB / 24 GB

✅ Runs comfortably

Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct · fp16 10.9 GB / 24 GB

✅ Runs comfortably