What are the hardware requirements for Qwen3.5 2B Base?

Qwen3.5 2B Base requires approximately 4.5 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Qwen3.5 2B Base and how large is it?

Qwen3.5 2B Base is developed by Qwen, a model with 2b 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 2B Base?

Qwen3.5 2B Base is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Qwen3.5 2B Base by Qwen — VRAM 4.5GB

Name: Qwen3.5 2B Base
Author: Qwen

Qwen3.5 2B Base is an open-source language model by Qwen. Features: 2b LLM, VRAM: 4.5GB, 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/Qwen3.5-2B-Base

Qwen3.5 2B Base Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Qwen3.5 2B Base
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.5-2B-Base
Model Size	2b
Required VRAM	4.5 GB
Updated	2026-08-09
Maintainer	Qwen
Model Type	qwen3_5
Model Files	4.5 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 2B Base

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
Qwen3.5 2B 6bit	7	8680	2 GB
Qwen3.5 2B 4bit	5	5374	1 GB
Qwen3.5 2B 8bit	1	202	2 GB

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Qwen3.5 2B	0K / 4.5 GB	2633311	352
JOSIE 2 2B OSS	0K / 4.5 GB	484	8
Qwen3.5 2B Manumit V1	0K / 4.4 GB	129	0
Tmax 2B	0K / 3.8 GB	1061	3
SingGuard NSFA 2B	0K / 5.4 GB	248	2
...e 4.6 Opus Reasoning Distilled	0K / 4.5 GB	383	11
QwenPaw Flash 2B	0K / 5.4 GB	134	8
Qwen3.5 2B Bf16	0K / 4.4 GB	128	3
Qwen3.5 2B JP V0.2	0K / 4.4 GB	11	0
Qwen3.5 2B MLX 4bit	0K / 1.7 GB	12310	2

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than Qwen/Qwen3.5-2B-Base.