Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct vs chandra-ocr-2

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
8.8 B
Context
—
30d
7.1 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
datalab-to · B · Open weights
Params
5.3 B
Context
—
30d
1.4 M
openrail licence · conditional

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct chandra-ocr-2
Deployment Open weights · also via API Open weights
Parameters 8.8 B 5.3 B
Architecture Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration
Context length 262,144 —
Licence apache-2.0 openrail
Commercial use Allowed Conditional
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 7,092,774 1,387,634
Downloads all time 79.7 M 14.2 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-10-11 2026-03-16
API input price / 1M tokens $0.25 not on OpenRouter
API output price / 1M tokens $0.75 not on OpenRouter
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $1.00 not on OpenRouter
Cached input / 1M tokens $0.12 not on OpenRouter
AA Intelligence Index — not on OpenRouter
AA Coding Index — not on OpenRouter
AA Agentic Index — not on OpenRouter
Max output tokens 235,929 not on OpenRouter
API providers 1 not on OpenRouter
Tool calling Yes not on OpenRouter
Reasoning mode No not on OpenRouter

API cost

Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter

Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct $1.00

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

20.2 M1.3 M
Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct chandra-ocr-2

VRAM side by side

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

chandra-ocr-2 · fp16 12.9 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct · fp16 21.1 GB / 24 GB
⚠️ Tight — reduce context

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