What are the hardware requirements for Qwen3.5 0.8B Base?

Qwen3.5 0.8B Base requires approximately 1.8 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Qwen3.5 0.8B Base and how large is it?

Qwen3.5 0.8B Base is developed by Qwen, a model with 0.8b 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 Qwen3.5 0.8B Base?

Qwen3.5 0.8B Base is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Qwen3.5 0.8B Base by Qwen — VRAM 1.8GB

Name: Qwen3.5 0.8B Base
Author: Qwen

Qwen3.5 0.8B Base is an open-source language model by Qwen. Features: 0.8b LLM, VRAM: 1.8GB, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.35.

Conversational Endpoints compatible Image-text-to-text Qwen3 5 Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.5-0.8B-Base

Qwen3.5 0.8B Base Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Qwen3.5 0.8B Base
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.5-0.8B-Base
Model Size	0.8b
Required VRAM	1.8 GB
Updated	2026-08-09
Maintainer	Qwen
Model Type	qwen3_5
Model Files	1.8 GB: 1-of-1
Model Architecture	Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration
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 Qwen3.5 0.8B Base

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
Decisionnode Edge Mini	1	242	0 GB
Qwen3.5 0.8B 8bit	2	4792	1 GB
Qwen3.5 0.8B 4bit	3	2549	0 GB

Best Alternatives to Qwen3.5 0.8B Base

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
... 0.8B Weight Space Programming	0K / 1.8 GB	1297	90
OvisOCR3	0K / 1.7 GB	4972	109
... 0.8B Weight Space Programming	0K / 1.8 GB	227	56
Qwen3.5 0.8B	0K / 1.8 GB	2839884	655
Xiaomi OCR 0	0K / 1.8 GB	16009	164
OvisOCR2	0K / 1.7 GB	83978	506
MinerU2.5 Flash 0.8B	0K / 1.7 GB	23	1
Qwen3.5 0.8B Astra WeightEdit	0K / 1.8 GB	141	19
LightOnOCR 3 0.8B	0K / 1.7 GB	1318	48
LightOnOCR 3 0.8B MTP Repacked	0K / 1.8 GB	555	1

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than Qwen/Qwen3.5-0.8B-Base.