Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct vs DeepSeek-OCR-2
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct | DeepSeek-OCR-2 |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 4.4 B | 3.4 B |
| Architecture | Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration | DeepseekOCR2ForCausalLM |
| Context length | — | 8,192 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | — | 1 |
| Downloads 30d | 3,998,087 | 2,081,935 |
| Downloads all time | 21.1 M | 12.4 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2025-10-11 | 2026-01-27 |
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)
4.0 M2.1 M
Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct
DeepSeek-OCR-2
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
DeepSeek-OCR-2 · fp16
8.5 GB / 24 GB
Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct · fp16
10.9 GB / 24 GB