What are the hardware requirements for Qwen3 VL 2B Instruct 8bit?

Qwen3 VL 2B Instruct 8bit requires approximately 2.6 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Qwen3 VL 2B Instruct 8bit and how large is it?

Qwen3 VL 2B Instruct 8bit is developed by mlx-community, 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 VL 2B Instruct 8bit?

Qwen3 VL 2B Instruct 8bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Qwen3 VL 2B Instruct 8bit by mlx-community — VRAM 2.6GB

Name: Qwen3 VL 2B Instruct 8bit
Author: mlx-community

Qwen3 VL 2B Instruct 8bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 2b LLM, VRAM: 2.6GB, License: apache-2.0, Quantized, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.21.

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Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct-8bit

Qwen3 VL 2B Instruct 8bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Qwen3 VL 2B Instruct 8bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct-8bit
Model Size	2b
Required VRAM	2.6 GB
Updated	2026-08-08
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	qwen3_vl
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	2.6 GB
Quantization Type	8bit
Model Architecture	Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration
License	apache-2.0
Model Max Length	262144
Transformers Version	4.57.1
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Errors	replace

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