Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct vs Qwen3.6-27B-MTP-GGUF

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 20 September 2026.

Qwen · A
Params
8.8 B
Context
30d
19.5 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
unsloth · B
Params
Context
30d
1.2 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct Qwen3.6-27B-MTP-GGUF
Parameters 8.8 B
Architecture Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration
Context length
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages
Downloads 30d 19,522,025 1,170,648
Downloads all time 68.1 M 6.8 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS GGUF
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-10-11 2026-05-11

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 55 days (28 Jul – 20 Sep)

19.5 M859 K
Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct Qwen3.6-27B-MTP-GGUF

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3.6-27B-MTP-GGUF · Q4_0 18.2 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct · fp16 21.1 GB / 24 GB
⚠️ Tight — reduce context

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