Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct vs DeepSeek-OCR

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 September 2026.

Qwen · A

Params

8.8 B

Context

—

30d

19.7 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-8B-Instruct	DeepSeek-OCR
Parameters	8.8 B	3.3 B
Architecture	Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration	DeepseekOCRForCausalLM
Context length	—	8,192
Licence	apache-2.0	mit
Commercial use	Allowed	Allowed
Languages	—	1
Downloads 30d	19,744,243	2,296,063
Downloads all time	68.6 M	35.3 M
Quantizations on the Hub	SAFETENSORS	SAFETENSORS
Gated	No	No
First seen on the Hub	2025-10-11	2025-10-17

Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)

19.7 M2.1 M

Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct DeepSeek-OCR

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

DeepSeek-OCR · fp16 8.3 GB / 24 GB

✅ Runs comfortably

Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct · fp16 21.1 GB / 24 GB

⚠️ Tight — reduce context