What are the hardware requirements for Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct?

Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct requires approximately 17.5 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct and how large is it?

Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct is developed by JFK2000, a model with 8b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

Where can I download or evaluate Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct?

Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct by JFK2000 — VRAM 17.5GB

Name: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct
Author: JFK2000

Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct is an open-source language model by JFK2000. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 17.5GB, License: apache-2.0, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.28.

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Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/JFK2000/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct

Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/JFK2000/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	17.5 GB
Updated	2026-10-27
Maintainer	JFK2000
Model Type	qwen3_vl
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	4.9 GB: 1-of-4 4.9 GB: 2-of-4 5.0 GB: 3-of-4 2.7 GB: 4-of-4
Model Architecture	Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration
License	apache-2.0
Model Max Length	262144
Transformers Version	4.57.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Errors	replace

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