Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct vs DeepSeek-OCR
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.
Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
4.4 B
Context
—
30d
3.7 M
apache-2.0 · 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 | 3,747,873 | 1,952,733 |
| Downloads all time | 33.3 M | 38.7 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2025-10-11 | 2025-10-17 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)
4.3 M2.0 M
Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct
DeepSeek-OCR
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
DeepSeek-OCR · fp16
8.3 GB / 24 GB
Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct · fp16
10.9 GB / 24 GB