What are the hardware requirements for Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct?

Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct requires approximately 8.9 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct and how large is it?

Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct is developed by Qwen, a model with 4b 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 4B Instruct?

Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct by Qwen — VRAM 8.9GB

Name: Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct
Author: Qwen

Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct is an open-source language model by Qwen. Features: 4b LLM, VRAM: 8.9GB, License: apache-2.0, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.36.

Arxiv:2308.12966 Arxiv:2409.12191 Arxiv:2502.13923 Arxiv:2505.09388 Conversational Deploy:azure Endpoints compatible Eval-results Image-text-to-text Instruct Qwen3 vl Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct

Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct
Model Size	4b
Required VRAM	8.9 GB
Updated	2026-08-09
Maintainer	Qwen
Model Type	qwen3_vl
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	5.0 GB: 1-of-2 3.9 GB: 2-of-2
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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Quantized Models of the Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
...L 4B Instruct Unsloth Bnb 4bit	12	253817	4 GB

Best Alternatives to Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct FP8	0K / 6.1 GB	301103	65
OMEGA 4B SpatialThink 0804	0K / 8.9 GB	16	1
GELab Zero 4B Preview	0K / 8.9 GB	235	154
ZwZ 4B	0K / 9.7 GB	155	32
Spatial SSRL Qwen3VL 4B	0K / 9.7 GB	101	14
... VL 4B Instruct Uncensored FP8	0K / 5.7 GB	2063	7
...L 4B Instruct Unsloth Bnb 4bit	0K / 4.3 GB	253817	12
...en3 VL 4B Instruct Abliterated	0K / 8.9 GB	23839	94
...wen3 VL 4B Instruct Uncensored	0K / 17.8 GB	179	4
Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct 4bit	0K / 3.1 GB	17416	7