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 Qwen, 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 Qwen — VRAM 17.5GB

Name: Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct
Author: Qwen

Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct is an open-source language model by Qwen. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 17.5GB, License: apache-2.0, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.4.

Arxiv:2308.12966 Arxiv:2409.12191 Arxiv:2502.13923 Arxiv:2505.09388 Conversational Deploy:azure Deploy:sagemaker 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-8B-Instruct

Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	17.5 GB
Updated	2026-08-09
Maintainer	Qwen
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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Quantized Models of the Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
Kowalski V5	2	426	17 GB
Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct AWQ 4bit	16	408618	7 GB
...L 8B Instruct Unsloth Bnb 4bit	22	24231	7 GB
...L 8B Instruct GPTQ Safetensors	0	282	5 GB
Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct Bnb 4bit	4	11322	7 GB

Best Alternatives to Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct

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Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct FP8	0K / 10.6 GB	3108604	77
AesCode 8B	0K / 17.5 GB	356	57
Qwen3vl Resume Parser	0K / 17.5 GB	257455	3
K Oss 8 Mini Instruct 8B	0K / 17.5 GB	87	1
PhysBrain1.5 8B	0K / 17.8 GB	638	27
UHR BAT2	0K / 17.5 GB	122	15
OPO 8B	0K / 35 GB	64	1
Retrieval Trainset 100 101426	0K / 17.5 GB	186	1
EVAN 8B	0K / 17.6 GB	76	2
Qwen3 VL 8B Heretic 1.3.0	0K / 17.5 GB	4653	12