Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct vs Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct

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
Qwen · B
Params
4.4 B
Context
30d
3.7 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct
Parameters 8.8 B 4.4 B
Architecture Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration
Context length
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages
Downloads 30d 19,522,025 3,682,136
Downloads all time 68.1 M 27.1 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-10-11 2025-10-11

Download trend

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

19.5 M3.6 M
Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct · fp16 10.9 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct · fp16 21.1 GB / 24 GB
⚠️ Tight — reduce context

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