// Qwen · Vision-language
Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct: VRAM & local deployment
3.75B parameters. About 3.3 GB at 4-bit and 9.1 GB at BF16 with one 8K-token request.
released 2025-01-26licence: Non-commercialmemory figures are estimates
01Specs
| Publisher | Alibaba Qwen · Qwen |
|---|---|
| Family / series | Qwen · Qwen2.5-VL |
| Type | Vision-language (image-text-to-text) |
| Parameters | 3.75B Source: counted from official safetensors weights |
| Context length | 125K tokens (128,000)max_position_embeddings in config.json |
| Architecture | 36 layers · GQA |
| Released weights | BF16 · 7.5 GBdownload |
| Licence | qwen-research · Non-commercialResearch / non-commercial licence: commercial use is not allowed without a separate agreement. |
| Released | 2025-01-26 (Hugging Face repo created) |
02How much VRAM it needs (estimate)
Total = weights + 10% + 0.5GB overhead + KV cache for one request (FP16 KV). More concurrent users multiply the KV column.
| Precision | Weights | Total @ 8K | Total @ 32K | Smallest GPU | Mac |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BF16 / FP16 (original) | 7.5 GB | 9.1 GB | 10.0 GB | 12GB GPU | Mac 16GB |
| FP8 / INT8 / Q8_0 | 4.0 GB | 5.2 GB | 6.1 GB | 8GB GPU | Mac 16GB |
| 4-bit (Q4_K_M / AWQ / GPTQ-Int4) | 2.3 GB | 3.3 GB | 4.2 GB | 8GB GPU | Mac 16GB |
KV cache per request: 8K 0.3 GB · 32K 1.2 GB
Bits per weight: BF16 16, FP8 8.5, 4-bit 4.85. “Fits” = total ≤ 90% of memory; Mac GPU can use ~2/3 of unified memory (≤36GB) or ~3/4 (larger). For MoE, all experts must be in memory, so size by total parameters. Method →
03How to run it
Only runtimes the publisher or the runtime’s official library names for this model.
- Transformers — mentioned in the official model card
- Ollama — in the official Ollama library · qwen2.5vl:3b
ollama run qwen2.5vl:3b04Official repositories & quantised builds
2 official repo(s) from Qwen.
- Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct Instruct
- Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct-AWQ Instruct/AWQ
05Other Qwen models
All 112 →| Model | Params | 4-bit total | Released |
|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct · same series | 8.29B | 6.5 GB | 2025-01-26 |
| Qwen2.5-VL-32B-Instruct · same series | 33.5B | 25.0 GB | 2025-03-21 |
| Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct · same series | 73.4B | 52.1 GB | 2025-01-27 |
| Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo | 7.12B | 5.2 GB | 2026-10-09 |
| Qwen-Image-2.1 | 7.12B | 5.2 GB | 2026-09-14 |
| Qwen3.8-Flash-Next | 180B / 6B | 121 GB | 2026-08-24 |
| Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B | 2.4T / 95B | 1.60 TB | 2026-08-08 |
| Qwen3.8-27B | 27.8B | 19.6 GB | 2026-08-05 |
| Qwen3.6-27B | 27.8B | 19.6 GB | 2026-04-21 |
| Qwen3.6-35B-A3B | 36B / 3B | 24.6 GB | 2026-04-15 |
| Qwen3.5-0.8B | 873M | 1.2 GB | 2026-02-28 |
06Sources
Data checked 2025-04-06. Parameters, context and licence are copied from the official repository; memory figures are our estimates.