Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct vs Qwen3.5-2B

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 24 October 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
4.4 B
Context
—
30d
3.6 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Qwen · B · Open weights
Params
2.3 B
Context
—
30d
2.9 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct Qwen3.5-2B
Parameters 4.4 B 2.3 B
Architecture Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration
Context length — —
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 3,606,071 2,933,129
Downloads all time 31.0 M 20.1 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-10-11 2026-02-28

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 89 days (28 Jul – 24 Oct)

4.9 M2.4 M
Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct Qwen3.5-2B A overtook B on 16 Oct

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3.5-2B · fp16 5.8 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct · fp16 10.9 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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