Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct vs GLM-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

zai-org · B

Params

1.3 B

Context

—

30d

2.0 M

mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification	Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct	GLM-OCR
Parameters	8.8 B	1.3 B
Architecture	Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration	GlmOcrForConditionalGeneration
Context length	—	—
Licence	apache-2.0	mit
Commercial use	Allowed	Allowed
Languages	—	8
Downloads 30d	19,744,243	1,956,836
Downloads all time	68.6 M	30.7 M
Quantizations on the Hub	SAFETENSORS	SAFETENSORS
Gated	No	No
First seen on the Hub	2025-10-11	2026-01-30

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

19.7 M2.0 M

Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct GLM-OCR

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

GLM-OCR · fp16 3.6 GB / 24 GB

✅ Runs comfortably

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

⚠️ Tight — reduce context