What are the hardware requirements for Qwen2.5 VL 3B Instruct 6bit?

Qwen2.5 VL 3B Instruct 6bit requires approximately 3.2 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 125K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Qwen2.5 VL 3B Instruct 6bit and how large is it?

Qwen2.5 VL 3B Instruct 6bit is developed by mlx-community, a model with 3b 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 Qwen2.5 VL 3B Instruct 6bit?

Qwen2.5 VL 3B Instruct 6bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Qwen2.5 VL 3B Instruct 6bit by mlx-community — VRAM 3.2GB, 125K context

Name: Qwen2.5 VL 3B Instruct 6bit
Author: mlx-community

Qwen2.5 VL 3B Instruct 6bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 3b LLM, VRAM: 3.2GB, Context: 125K, Quantized, Instruction-Based.

6bit Base model:finetune:qwen/qwen2... Base model:qwen/qwen2.5-vl-3b-... Conversational En Endpoints compatible Image-text-to-text Instruct Mlx Multimodal Quantized Qwen2 5 vl Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct-6bit

Qwen2.5 VL 3B Instruct 6bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Qwen2.5 VL 3B Instruct 6bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct-6bit
Base Model(s)	Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct
Model Size	3b
Required VRAM	3.2 GB
Updated	2026-08-08
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	qwen2_5_vl
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	3.2 GB
Supported Languages	en
Quantization Type	6bit
Model Architecture	Qwen2_5_VLForConditionalGeneration
Context Length	128000
Model Max Length	128000
Transformers Version	4.41.2
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	151936
Torch Data Type	bfloat16
Errors	replace

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Best Alternatives to Qwen2.5 VL 3B Instruct 6bit

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
Holo1 3B 3bit	125K / 2.7 GB	21	1
Qwen2.5 VL 3B Instruct 3bit	125K / 2.7 GB	221	2
Holo1 3B 4bit	125K / 3.1 GB	27	1
Qwen2.5 VL 3B Instruct 4bit	125K / 3.1 GB	3235	5
Qwen2.5 VL 3B Instruct 8bit	125K / 4.1 GB	528	7
Nanonets OCR2 3B 8bit	125K / 4.6 GB	103	1
Nanonets OCR2 3B	125K / 7.5 GB	659329	511
Qwen2.5 VL 3B Instruct	125K / 7.5 GB	2710	6
Nanonets OCR S Bf16	125K / 7.5 GB	96	2
...2.5 VL 3B Instruct Abliterated	125K / 7.5 GB	50	1

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than mlx-community/Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct-6bit.