What are the hardware requirements for Qwen2 VL 7B?

Qwen2 VL 7B requires approximately 16.7 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 32K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Qwen2 VL 7B and how large is it?

Qwen2 VL 7B is developed by Qwen, a model with 7b 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 Qwen2 VL 7B?

Qwen2 VL 7B is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Qwen2 VL 7B by Qwen — VRAM 16.7GB, 32K context

Name: Qwen2 VL 7B
Author: Qwen

Qwen2 VL 7B is an open-source language model by Qwen. Features: 7b LLM, VRAM: 16.7GB, Context: 32K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.16.

Arxiv:2308.12966 Arxiv:2409.12191 Conversational Deploy:azure En Endpoints compatible Image-text-to-text Multimodal Qwen2 vl Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2-VL-7B

Qwen2 VL 7B Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Qwen2 VL 7B
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2-VL-7B
Model Size	7b
Required VRAM	16.7 GB
Updated	2026-08-09
Maintainer	Qwen
Model Type	qwen2_vl
Model Files	3.9 GB: 1-of-5 3.9 GB: 2-of-5 3.9 GB: 3-of-5 3.9 GB: 4-of-5 1.1 GB: 5-of-5
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	Qwen2VLForConditionalGeneration
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	32768
Model Max Length	32768
Transformers Version	4.41.2
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	152064
Torch Data Type	bfloat16
Errors	replace

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Best Alternatives to Qwen2 VL 7B

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct	32K / 16.7 GB	33	37
UI TARS 7B DPO	32K / 16.6 GB	2043	230
UI TARS 7B SFT	32K / 33.2 GB	1077	180
ZeroGUI AndroidLab 7B	32K / 16.6 GB	31	5
ZeroGUI OSWorld 7B	32K / 16.6 GB	28	7
Qwen2 VL 7B Instruct Bf16	32K / 16.6 GB	50	4
Qwen2 VL 7B Bf16	32K / 16.6 GB	22	1
UI TARS 7B DPO 8bit	32K / 9.4 GB	37	1
OlmOCR 7B 0225 Preview 4bit	32K / 5.6 GB	22	1
...L 7B Instruct Abliterated 8bit	32K / 8.9 GB	29	1

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than Qwen/Qwen2-VL-7B.