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Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct

Qwen Qwen License (qwen-research) out 21 months ago

3.75B parameters, images and text in, text out, 125K tokens of context. 1 provider serves it.

Verified 2026-10-25 Rank #77 in LLMs · score 103.4 method v1 Sources 3 Downloads 30d 1.7M · #76 of 619 tracked

Can I run it?2.3GB at INT4Estimatefits a 16 GB cardmethod
Can I use it?Qwen License (qwen-research)Free below a usage thresholdlicence file2026-10-24
Do people use it?1.7Mdownloads, 30 days#76 of 619 we track · top 12%+10 likes, downloads −14% this week737 likesHugging Face2026-10-24

Worth reading

Picked by rule from 29 tracked pieces: the lab's own post, the most shared, a field report, the latest.

25 best of 29 tracked

The 2 picks above, plus these 23. Top is the radar's score: discussion, source authority and the lab's own posts, fading with age.

  1. Codekev: Jev-like model built on Qwen2.5-0.5Bgithub.com · 2026-09-19
  2. ArticleQwen2.5-VL-32B: Smarter and Lighterqwenlm.github.io · 2025-03-24 · 544 HN pts · official
  3. ArticleQwen2.5-1M: Deploy your own Qwen with context length up to 1M tokensqwenlm.github.io · 2025-01-26 · official
  4. ArticleQwen2.5: A Party of Foundation Modelsqwenlm.github.io · 2024-09-18 · 168 HN pts · official
  5. ArticleQwen2.5-Max: Exploring the intelligence of large-scale MoE modelqwenlm.github.io · 2025-01-28 · official
  6. ArticleQwen2.5-Coder-32B is an LLM that can code well that runs on my Macsimonwillison.net · 2024-11-13
  7. ArticleShow HN: Fine-tuned Qwen2.5-7B on 100 films for probabilistic story graphscinegraphs.ai · 2026-02-08
  8. ArticleQwen2.5-7B-Instruct-1M and Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct-1Msimonwillison.net · 2025-01-26
  9. ArticleQwen2.5-Coder Beats GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet in Codingqwenlm.github.io · 2024-11-11 · official
  10. ArticleCivic-SLM is a domain-specialized fine-tune of Qwen2.5-7B for U.S. govt dataitsmeduncan.com · 2026-04-25
  11. ArticleQwen2.5-VLqwenlm.github.io · 2025-01-27 · 8 HN pts · official
  12. CodeQwen2.5-Coder-32B with coding abilities matching those of GPT-4ogithub.com · 2024-11-09
  13. ArticleQwen2.5 Omni: See, Hear, Talk, Write, Do It Allqwenlm.github.io · 2025-03-26 · official
  14. ArticleAlibaba Qwen2.5-Omni-7B: Open Source End-to-End Multimodal AI Modelalizila.com · 2025-03-27
  15. CodeREADME.mdgithub.com · undated
  16. ArticleQwen2.5-Max: The Next Leap in AI Innovationmedium.com · 2025-01-29
  17. ArticleQwen2.5-Omni Technical Reporthuggingface.co · 2025-03-30
  18. PaperQwen2.5-Coder Technical Reportarxiv.org · 2024-11-11
  19. DiscussionQwen2.5-coder on the events occurring during the Tiananmen Square protestsnews.ycombinator.com · 2024-11-20
  20. CodeQwen2.5-VL: State-of-the-art multimodal LLMgithub.com · 2025-01-30 · 3 HN pts
  21. DiscussionNew Qwen2.5-Max Outperforms DeepSeek V3 in Benchmarkstwitter.com · 2025-01-28
  22. ArticleQwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct: Compact Multimodal Modelemergentmind.com · undated
  23. ArticleQwen2.5 VL 3B | Open Laboratoryopenlaboratory.com · undated

Where to run it

Live hosted endpoints, cheapest first, USD per million tokens. Ties break on output price, then provider name.

#Cheapest live rowIn /1MOut /1MContextQuantSeen
1 Featherless — — — — Oct 25

All 1 provider →

Where it's used

Hugging Face does not say who downloads a model or with what. These are the proxies: API providers listing it, quantized builds, fine-tunes/adapters/merges, and Spaces that load it.

Served by 1 API provider; heavily run locally (98 quantized builds); a big base for builders (1,195 fine-tunes, adapters and merges).

  • As a service1Featherless
  • On own hardware98quantized builds
  • Built on1,195893 fine-tunes · 302 adapters · 0 merges
  • In apps100+Hugging Face Spaces

Top Spaces running it: alexnasa/Wan2.2-Animate-ZEROGPU ♥ 365 · multimodalart/self-forcing ♥ 333 · alexnasa/Chain-of-Zoom ♥ 320 · fffiloni/Meigen-MultiTalk ♥ 276

Will it fit?

Weights only, an estimate: leave room for the KV cache. Method

Fits a 16 GB card at INT4

About 2.3 GB at INT4, 4.5 GB at FP8, 9.0 GB at BF16: weights only, so leave room for the KV cache.

16 GB card64 GB Mac2×80 GB8×80 GBINT4: about 2.3 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)INT42.3 GBFP8: about 4.5 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)FP84.5 GBBF16: about 9.0 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)BF169.0 GB
16 GB card64 GB Mac2×80 GB8×80 GBINT4: about 2.3 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)INT42.3 GBFP8: about 4.5 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)FP84.5 GBBF16: about 9.0 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)BF169.0 GB

Estimate params × bytes per param × 1.2 · how we estimate

The story so far

Weights, every dated article, and repo commits on one rail.

Most coverage came in the first two weeks

Teal is the weights (2025-01-26), amber triangles are 6 dated articles (each links to it), grey ticks are repo commits.

OctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOct2025-04-06: 1 repo commit2025-03-26: 1 repo commit2025-03-23: 1 repo commit2025-03-21: 1 repo commit2025-02-15: 1 repo commit2025-02-04: 1 repo commit2025-01-27: 5 repo commits2025-01-26: 2 repo commitsQwen2.5-VL-32B: Smarter and Lighter · 2025-03-24Qwen2.5: A Party of Foundation Models · 2024-09-18Qwen2.5-VL · 2025-01-27Qwen2.5-VL-32B: Smarter and Lighter · 2025-03-25Qwen2.5-VL: State-of-the-art multimodal LLM · 2025-01-30Show HN: I made a free study tool powered by Qwen2.5 · 2025-01-28Weights 2025-01-26 · 2025-01-26Weights 2025-01-26now · 1 provider
OctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOct2025-04-06: 1 repo commit2025-03-26: 1 repo commit2025-03-23: 1 repo commit2025-03-21: 1 repo commit2025-02-15: 1 repo commit2025-02-04: 1 repo commit2025-01-27: 5 repo commits2025-01-26: 2 repo commitsQwen2.5-VL-32B: Smarter and Lighter · 2025-03-24Qwen2.5: A Party of Foundation Models · 2024-09-18Qwen2.5-VL · 2025-01-27Qwen2.5-VL-32B: Smarter and Lighter · 2025-03-25Qwen2.5-VL: State-of-the-art multimodal LLM · 2025-01-30Show HN: I made a free study tool powered by Qwen2.5 · 2025-01-28Weights 2025-01-26 · 2025-01-26Weights 2025-01-26now · 1 provider

What people built on it

1,293 derivatives on the Hub. Which build to run, by runtime: the most downloaded in each class.

1,293 derivatives on the Hub, most of them fine-tunes

From the Hugging Face model tree; quantized builds in teal, fine-tunes, merges and adapters in greys.

98 quantized (Hugging Face model tree)893 fine-tunes (Hugging Face model tree)302 adapters (Hugging Face model tree)98 quantized893 fine-tunes302 adapters
98 quantized (Hugging Face model tree)893 fine-tunes (Hugging Face model tree)302 adapters (Hugging Face model tree)98 quantized893 fine-tunes302 adapters

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Reference

Everything else, folded: the full tables, every source.

What the card says

1 cited sentence

Summary generated, cited

The model uses an image-text-to-text pipeline for tasks such as visual localization and structured output generation.[1][2]

  1. pipeline tag
  2. “generating bounding boxes or points”

Generated 2026-10-07 15:00 UTC by parasail-gemma-4-26b-a4b-it; each numeral points at the fact it rests on. Not a verdict.

Use-case evidence

5 use cases

What it is good at 5 use cases

Labels are evidence, not verdicts: measured a third-party leaderboard row for this model; author-reported a number the model author published in the card or eval files; structural a deterministic signal from the name, config or chat template, or a decision-model estimate. Each chip links to its source. All use cases.

Facts

21 fields

Listed in LLMs

Facts

Pipeline tagimage-text-to-text
Librarytransformers
ArchitecturesQwen2_5_VLForConditionalGeneration
Model typeqwen2_5_vl
Dtypebfloat16
Params by dtypeBF16: 3,754,622,976
Size bandM
MoEno
Context length128,000 (config.json max_position_embeddings)
PapersarXiv:2309.00071, arXiv:2409.12191, arXiv:2308.12966
LicenseQwen License (qwen-research)
Hub snapshot2026-10-25

Servability

vLLM · SGLang

Servability

vLLM: supported · Qwen2_5_VLForConditionalGeneration · 7050ef881ff0835f6890a47db1859a24c65481d6SGLang: supported · Qwen2_5_VLForConditionalGeneration · 773cb938fe9484a8f7e7e46fb1b1fe96412c59ed

vLLM registry (7050ef881ff0835f6890a47db1859a24c65481d6) · SGLang registry (773cb938fe9484a8f7e7e46fb1b1fe96412c59ed) · Matched by architecture class name against each project's registry on main; 'supported' means the architecture is registered, not that this checkpoint was tested.

Hardware fit

3 estimates

Hardware fit ESTIMATE

Weights-only memory for Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct: params × bytes/param × 1.2 overhead. KV cache and activations are extra. How this is computed.

BF16 (2 bytes/param)9.0 GB · Single GPU (<24 GB)
FP8 (1 byte/param)4.5 GB · Single GPU (<24 GB)
INT4 (0.5 bytes/param)2.3 GB · Edge (<4 GB)

Weights only (params × bytes/param × 1.2 overhead); KV cache and activations extra.

All variants

40 variants

Lineage

Original model Family: Qwen/Qwen2.5 1,293 derivatives on the Hub

quantized: 98finetune: 893adapter: 302

Top variants (40 shown, ranked by downloads)

Relation
Quant
40 rows
Variant Relation Quant Params Band License Author Likes Downloads
Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct-AWQ quantized AWQ 3.75B M — Qwen 77 3.9M
nanonets/Nanonets-OCR2-3B finetune — 3.75B M — nanonets 517 3.7M
nanonets/Nanonets-OCR-s finetune — 3.75B M — nanonets 1.6k 2.2M
typhoon-ai/typhoon-ocr-3b finetune — 3.75B M apache-2.0 typhoon-ai 10 1.2M
RedHatAI/Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct-quantized.w8a8 quantized -quant 4.07B M apache-2.0 RedHatAI 2 576.3k
ChatDOC/OCRFlux-3B finetune — 4.06B M — ChatDOC 370 523.7k
IDEA-Research/Rex-Omni finetune — 4.07B M other IDEA-Research 66 373.1k
RedHatAI/Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct-FP8-dynamic quantized -FP8 4.07B M apache-2.0 RedHatAI 3 330.9k
tsystems/colqwen2.5-3b-multilingual-v1.0 adapter — — — mit tsystems 20 315.2k
ggml-org/Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct-GGUF quantized GGUF — — apache-2.0 ggml-org 17 295.3k
unsloth/Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct finetune — 3.75B M — unsloth 6 280.7k
unsloth/Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct-unsloth-bnb-4bit quantized -bnb 3.83B M — unsloth 16 256.1k
unsloth/Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct-GGUF quantized GGUF — — — unsloth 31 242.3k
lmstudio-community/Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct-GGUF quantized GGUF — — — lmstudio-community 0 171.9k
huihui-ai/Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct-abliterated quantized GGUF 3.75B M — huihui-ai 35 169.4k
remyxai/SpaceQwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct quantized GGUF 3.75B M — remyxai 18 154.7k
numind/NuExtract-2.0-4B finetune — 3.75B M mit numind 30 153.1k
tsystems/colqwen2.5-3b-base finetune — 3.75B M apache-2.0 tsystems 0 133.5k
RedHatAI/Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct-quantized.w4a16 quantized -quant 4.07B M apache-2.0 RedHatAI 4 130.9k
sherif1313/Arabic-handwritten-OCR-4bit-Qwen2.5-VL-3B-v2 quantized -4bit 3.86B M apache-2.0 sherif1313 15 127.6k
unsloth/Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct-bnb-4bit quantized -bnb 3.86B M — unsloth 5 127.3k
stanford-oval/churro-3B finetune — 3.75B M other stanford-oval 20 114.6k
nomic-ai/colnomic-embed-multimodal-3b adapter — — — — nomic-ai 41 112k
nomic-ai/nomic-embed-multimodal-3b adapter — — — — nomic-ai 30 91.6k
convergence-ai/proxy-lite-3b finetune — 3.75B M cc-by-nc-4.0 convergence-ai 146 54.8k
mlx-community/Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct-4bit finetune -4bit 3.75B M — mlx-community 8 60.5k
bytedance-research/Lance finetune — — — apache-2.0 bytedance-research 1.1k 6.4k
Vchitect/ShotVL-3B finetune — 3.75B M apache-2.0 Vchitect 8 41.1k
mradermacher/Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct-GGUF quantized GGUF — — — mradermacher 1 38.1k
Hcompany/Holo1-3B finetune — 3.75B M other Hcompany 81 25.8k
Diankun/Spatial-MLLM-subset-sft finetune — 5.32B M mit Diankun 3 27.9k
OmniSVG/OmniSVG finetune — — — apache-2.0 OmniSVG 209 16.5k
Metric-AI/ColQwen2.5-3b-multilingual-v1.0 adapter — — — mit Metric-AI 10 26.3k
nvidia/NV-Reason-CXR-3B finetune — 3.75B M other nvidia 36 21.5k
WaltonFuture/Qwen2.5VL-3b-RLCS finetune — 4.07B M apache-2.0 WaltonFuture 0 20.8k
Metric-AI/colqwen2.5-3b-multilingual adapter — — — mit Metric-AI 17 19.3k
microsoft/GUI-Actor-3B-Qwen2.5-VL finetune — 3.79B M mit microsoft 14 17.9k
hfl/Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct-GPTQ-Int4 quantized GPTQ 3.75B M apache-2.0 hfl 3 17.5k
omlab/VLM-R1-Qwen2.5VL-3B-Math-0305 finetune — 3.75B M apache-2.0 omlab 8 16.6k
sherif1313/Arabic-English-handwritten-OCR-v3 finetune — 3.75B M apache-2.0 sherif1313 17 15.4k

Repository changelog

13 commits

Repository changelog 13 commits

DateCommitSHA
2025-04-06 Update tokenizer_config.json 6628554
2025-03-26 Remove self referencing base model (#24) c747f21
2025-03-23 Update generation_config.json 319ccfd
2025-03-21 Update generation_config.json d16cc59
2025-02-15 Update preprocessor_config.json 1b989f2
2025-02-04 Update README.md b318d09
2025-01-27 Update README.md a72921a
2025-01-27 Update README.md acbce9a
2025-01-27 Update README.md 9c1a731
2025-01-27 Create LICENSE 37ce9f6
2025-01-27 Create README.md aa4cd35
2025-01-26 Upload folder using huggingface_hub 37eefda
2025-01-26 initial commit 8e96c96

All providers

1 provider · 1 endpoint

Where to run 1 providers · 1 endpoints

Hosted endpoints observed for Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct, sorted by input price (USD per million tokens). Each row names its observer and date; prices change daily, so check the source before quoting.

ProviderModel refContextQuant$/M in$/M outtok/sTTFTToolsStatusObserved
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Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct — — — — — — — live 2026-10-25

Articles and coverage

29 pieces

Ranked by source signals (HN, Lobsters, authority domains, official posts) and recency. Summaries are generated from a stored copy of the article text; every sentence cites a span of that text, and nothing is shown that failed the citation check.

Official3

qwenlm.github.io2025-03-24officialauthorityHN front pageabout the Qwen2.5 familyHN 544 pts · 293 comments606 words
Alibaba open-sourced Qwen2.5-VL-32B-Instruct under the Apache 2.0 license, optimizing the model with reinforcement learning to improve human alignment and mathematical reasoning. This 32B parameter model outperforms larger 72B predecessors on benchmarks like MM-MT-Bench and MMMU-Pro while maintaining top-tier pure text capabilities. The model operates within the paradigm of "fast thinking" to prioritize subjective experience and complex multi-step reasoning.written, reviewed, cited
  • The model achieves significant advantages in MMMU, MMMU-Pro, and MathVista benchmarks focusing on complex, multi-step reasoning.
  • Qwen2.5-VL-32B-Instruct outperforms its predecessor Qwen2-VL-72B-Instruct by a substantial margin on the MM-MT-Bench benchmark.
qwenlm.github.io2024-09-18officialauthorityHN front pageabout the Qwen2.5 familyHN 168 pts · 38 comments1,744 words
Qwen2.5 introduces dense decoder-only models pretrained on up to 18 trillion tokens, available in sizes from 0.5B to 72B parameters. Most variants are licensed under Apache 2.0, excluding the 3B and 72B models, and support a 128K context window with 8K generation limits. Specialized versions for coding and mathematics offer enhanced performance on benchmarks like HumanEval and MATH.written, reviewed, cited
  • Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct outperforms many larger language models across a range of programming languages and tasks.
  • Qwen2.5-Math-72B-Instruct general performance surpasses both Qwen2-Math-72B-Instruct and GPT4-o.
qwenlm.github.io2025-01-27officialauthorityabout the Qwen2.5 familyHN 8 pts · 0 comments

Analysis7

github.comauthorityabout the Qwen2.5 family
simonwillison.net2025-03-25authorityabout the Qwen2.5 familyHN 3 pts · 2 comments
github.com2025-01-30authorityabout the Qwen2.5 familyHN 3 pts · 0 comments
emergentmind.com
openlaboratory.com
q4km.ai
freeflashcardgenerator.com2025-01-28about the Qwen2.5 familyHN 3 pts · 0 comments
All coverage tracked for this model (29) — append-only, nothing is ever removed
TitleSourcePublishedFirst seenSignals
README.mdgithub.com—2026-10-07exa
Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct: Compact Multimodal Modelemergentmind.com—2026-10-07exa
Qwen2.5 VL 3B | Open Laboratoryopenlaboratory.com—2026-10-07exa
Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct by Qwen - Overview, Benchmarks & Hardware | Q4KM.aiq4km.ai—2026-10-07exa
kev: Jev-like model built on Qwen2.5-0.5Bgithub.com2026-09-192026-10-07hn
Civic-SLM is a domain-specialized fine-tune of Qwen2.5-7B for U.S. govt dataitsmeduncan.com2026-04-252026-10-07hn
Show HN: Fine-tuned Qwen2.5-7B on 100 films for probabilistic story graphscinegraphs.ai2026-02-082026-10-07hn
Qwen2.5-Omni Technical Reporthuggingface.co2025-03-302026-10-07hn
Alibaba Qwen2.5-Omni-7B: Open Source End-to-End Multimodal AI Modelalizila.com2025-03-272026-10-07hn
Qwen2.5 Omni: See, Hear, Talk, Write, Do It Allqwenlm.github.io official2025-03-262026-10-07hn
Qwen2.5-VL-32B: Smarter and Lightersimonwillison.net2025-03-252026-10-07hn
Qwen2.5-VL-32B: Smarter and Lighterqwenlm.github.io official2025-03-242026-10-07hn
Qwen2.5-Pluschat.qwenlm.ai2025-01-312026-10-07hn
Qwen2.5-VL: State-of-the-art multimodal LLMgithub.com2025-01-302026-10-07hn
Qwen2.5-Max: The Next Leap in AI Innovationmedium.com2025-01-292026-10-07hn
New Qwen2.5-Max Outperforms DeepSeek V3 in Benchmarkstwitter.com2025-01-282026-10-07hn
Qwen2.5-Max: Exploring the intelligence of large-scale MoE modelqwenlm.github.io official2025-01-282026-10-07hn
Show HN: I made a free study tool powered by Qwen2.5freeflashcardgenerator.com2025-01-282026-10-07hn
Qwen2.5-VLqwenlm.github.io official2025-01-272026-10-07hn
Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-1M and Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct-1Msimonwillison.net2025-01-262026-10-07hn
Qwen2.5-1M: Deploy your own Qwen with context length up to 1M tokensqwenlm.github.io official2025-01-262026-10-07hn
Qwen2.5-coder on the events occurring during the Tiananmen Square protestsnews.ycombinator.com2024-11-202026-10-07hn
Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is an LLM that can code well that runs on my Macsimonwillison.net2024-11-132026-10-07hn
Qwen2.5-Coder Technical Reportarxiv.org2024-11-112026-10-07hn
Qwen2.5 Coderollama.com2024-11-112026-10-07hn
Qwen2.5-Coder Beats GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet in Codingqwenlm.github.io official2024-11-112026-10-07hn
Qwen2.5-Coder-32B with coding abilities matching those of GPT-4ogithub.com2024-11-092026-10-07hn
Guide how to use a local LLM Qwen2.5-coder-7B as an autocompelte in VSCodeeamag.me2024-10-292026-10-07hn
Qwen2.5: A Party of Foundation Modelsqwenlm.github.io official2024-09-182026-10-07hn

Papers

3 papers

Papers 3

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Sources

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Sources

Hub snapshot: 2026-10-25 · HF API: 2026-10-24 21:33 UTC · Providers: 2026-10-24 21:44 UTC · Articles: 2026-10-24 21:45 UTC · Summary: 2026-10-07 15:00 UTC · Last verified 2026-10-25

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