Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct vs reka-edge-2603

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 24 October 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
8.8 B
Context
—
30d
4.8 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
RekaAI · B · Open weights
Params
7.1 B
Context
—
30d
845

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct reka-edge-2603
Deployment Open weights · also via API Open weights · also via API
Parameters 8.8 B 7.1 B
Architecture Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration Yasa2ForConditionalGeneration
Context length 262,144 16,384
Licence apache-2.0 other
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 4,793,316 845
Downloads all time 75.2 M 18 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-10-11 2026-03-11
API input price / 1M tokens $0.25 $0.10
API output price / 1M tokens $0.75 $0.10
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $1.00 $0.20
Cached input / 1M tokens $0.12 —
AA Intelligence Index 7.3 —
AA Coding Index — —
AA Agentic Index — —
Max output tokens 235,929 14,745
API providers 1 1
Tool calling Yes Yes
Reasoning mode No Yes

API cost

Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter

Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct $1.00
reka-edge-2603 $0.20

reka-edge-2603 is 5.0× cheaper at list price.

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 89 days (28 Jul – 24 Oct)

20.2 M747
Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct reka-edge-2603

VRAM side by side

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

reka-edge-2603 · fp16 17.3 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct · fp16 21.1 GB / 24 GB
⚠️ Tight — reduce context

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