Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct vs Qwen2.5-VL-32B-Instruct-AWQ

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
Qwen · B
Params
33.5 B
Context
128,000
30d
993 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct Qwen2.5-VL-32B-Instruct-AWQ
Parameters 8.8 B 33.5 B
Architecture Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration Qwen2_5_VLForConditionalGeneration
Context length 128,000
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 1
Downloads 30d 19,744,243 992,742
Downloads all time 68.6 M 5.1 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-10-11 2025-03-26

Download trend

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

19.7 M915 K
Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct Qwen2.5-VL-32B-Instruct-AWQ

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct · fp16 21.1 GB / 24 GB
⚠️ Tight — reduce context
Qwen2.5-VL-32B-Instruct-AWQ · fp16 @ 125K ctx 101.7 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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