Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct vs DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 23 September 2026.
Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
8.8 B
Context
—
30d
4.8 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
deepseek-ai · B · Open weights
Params
304.6 B
Context
1,048,576
30d
836 K
mit · commercial OK
Specification comparison
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| Specification | Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct | DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Open weights · also via API | Open weights · also via API |
| Parameters | 8.8 B | 304.6 B |
| Architecture | Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration | DeepseekV4ForCausalLM |
| Context length | 262,144 | 1,048,576 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | mit |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Allowed |
| Languages | — | — |
| Downloads 30d | 4,785,534 | 835,578 |
| Downloads all time | 75.1 M | 1.1 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2025-10-11 | 2026-08-31 |
| API input price / 1M tokens | $0.25 | $0.22 |
| API output price / 1M tokens | $0.75 | $0.65 |
| Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens | $1.00 | $0.86 |
| Cached input / 1M tokens | $0.12 | $0.0069 |
| AA Intelligence Index | 7.3 | 34.8 |
| AA Coding Index | — | 65 |
| AA Agentic Index | — | 47.5 |
| Max output tokens | 235,929 | 262,144 |
| API providers | 1 | 3 |
| Tool calling | Yes | Yes |
| Reasoning mode | No | Yes |
API cost
Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter
Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct
$1.00
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp
$0.86
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp is 1.2× cheaper at list price.
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 88 days (28 Jul – 23 Oct)
20.2 M836 K
Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct · fp16
21.1 GB / 24 GB
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp · fp16 @ 1024K ctx
6,034.3 GB / 24 GB
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