Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct vs moondream3-preview
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 24 October 2026.
Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
8.8 B
Context
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30d
4.8 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct | moondream3-preview |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Open weights · also via API | Open weights · also via API |
| Parameters | 8.8 B | 9.3 B |
| Architecture | Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration | HfMoondream |
| Context length | 262,144 | 32,000 |
| Licence | apache-2.0 | other |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Unknown |
| Languages | — | — |
| Downloads 30d | 4,793,316 | 68,733 |
| Downloads all time | 75.2 M | 1.4 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2025-10-11 | 2025-09-11 |
| API input price / 1M tokens | $0.25 | $0.30 |
| API output price / 1M tokens | $0.75 | $2.50 |
| Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens | $1.00 | $2.80 |
| Cached input / 1M tokens | $0.12 | — |
| AA Intelligence Index | 7.3 | — |
| AA Coding Index | — | — |
| AA Agentic Index | — | — |
| Max output tokens | 235,929 | 4,096 |
| API providers | 1 | 1 |
| Tool calling | Yes | No |
| Reasoning mode | No | Yes |
API cost
Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter
Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct
$1.00
moondream3-preview
$2.80
Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct is 2.8× cheaper at list price.
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 89 days (28 Jul – 24 Oct)
20.2 M75 K
Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct
moondream3-preview
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct · fp16
21.1 GB / 24 GB
moondream3-preview · fp16
42.7 GB / 24 GB
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