Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct vs DeepSeek-OCR-2
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 September 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct | DeepSeek-OCR-2 |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 8.8 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 | 19,744,243 | 899,794 |
| Downloads all time | 68.6 M | 14.1 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 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)
19.7 M889 K
Qwen3-VL-8B-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-8B-Instruct · fp16
21.1 GB / 24 GB