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Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct

by Qwen Qwen/Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct

Meet Qwen3-VL — the most powerful vision-language model in the Qwen series to date.

Parameters4.4B
Context262,144
Weights8.9 GB
Licenseapache-2.0
AccessOpen weights
Monthly Downloads3.8M

Runs On

What it takes to serve Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct (4.4B parameters): the memory its weights need at each precision, and the cheapest way to rent enough data-center GPUs to hold them.

PrecisionWeightsMemory neededCheapest setupPer hourAlso fits
16-bit 8.9 GB 10.7 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
Vultr
$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00
8-bit 4.4 GB 5.3 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
Vultr
$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00
4-bit 2.2 GB 2.7 GB 1x MI300X (192 GB)
Vultr
$1.85 1x H100 $1.99 · 1x MI325X $2.00

Memory is the weights at that precision plus 20% for the runtime and a short context; a long context needs more. Prices are the lowest on-demand hourly rates in the SAVRN Index, read Sep 18, 2026.

SAVRN's Notes on Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct

Feed it an image and a question and it answers in text. At 4.4B parameters the memory figures put it on shared hardware: 2.7 GB needed at 4-bit, 5.3 GB at 8-bit, 10.7 GB for the full 16-bit weights. The cheapest Index setup is one MI300X with 192 GB at $1.85 an hour on-demand, a price set by the card rather than the model, so a single copy leaves most of that card idle.

Apache 2.0 permits commercial use, modification and redistribution, so a fine-tuned version can ship inside a product if the license and copyright notices travel with it and significant changes are stated. Confirm the 262,144-token context length, the ceiling on how much image and text goes into one request, and check that the files you receive match the October 11, 2025 release. Four linked technical reports carry the lineage back to the Qwen-VL paper.

Model Card

By Qwen, published under apache-2.0, revision ebb281ec70b0.

Meet Qwen3-VL — the most powerful vision-language model in the Qwen series to date.

This generation delivers comprehensive upgrades across the board: superior text understanding & generation, deeper visual perception & reasoning, extended context length, enhanced spatial and video dynamics comprehension, and stronger agent interaction capabilities.

Available in Dense and MoE architectures that scale from edge to cloud, with Instruct and reasoning‑enhanced Thinking editions for flexible, on‑demand deployment.

Key Enhancements:

Read the full model card (741 words)

Configuration

Architecture
Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration
Context length (tokens)
262,144
Layers
36
Hidden size
2,560
Feed-forward size
9,728
Attention heads
32
Key/value heads
8
Head dimension
128
Vocabulary size
151,936
RoPE base
5,000,000
Model type
qwen3_vl

Identity and Version

Repository
Qwen/Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct
Publisher
Qwen
Task
Image and text to text
Modality
Image and text
Library
transformers
Parameters
4.4B parameters
Languages
Not stated by the source
Revision
ebb281ec70b05090aa6165b016eac8ec08e71b17
First published
2025-10-11
Last updated
2025-10-15

Files and Weights

14 files, 8.9 GB in total. The weights are 2 files totalling 8.9 GB in safetensors.

Weights2 files · 8.9 GB
Configuration6 files · 72.8 KB
Tokenizer4 files · 11.5 MB
Documentation1 file · 7.1 KB
Repository1 file · 1.5 KB
Every file
FileTypeSizeSHA-256
model-00001-of-00002.safetensorsWeights5.0 GB 30a01a055662
model-00002-of-00002.safetensorsWeights3.9 GB 046296a2a387
chat_template.jsonConfiguration5.5 KB
config.jsonConfiguration1.5 KB
generation_config.jsonConfiguration269 B
model.safetensors.index.jsonConfiguration64.7 KB
preprocessor_config.jsonConfiguration390 B
video_preprocessor_config.jsonConfiguration385 B
README.mdDocumentation7.1 KB
.gitattributesRepository1.5 KB
merges.txtTokenizer1.7 MB
tokenizer.jsonTokenizer7.0 MB
tokenizer_config.jsonTokenizer10.9 KB
vocab.jsonTokenizer2.8 MB

License and Download

License
apache-2.0
Access
Open weights, no gate
Download size
8.9 GB
Download from Qwen

Released by Qwen through ModelScope. Read the license.

Built From

Evaluations

Each result is shown as reported, with the conditions its reporter stated. None is a SAVRN measurement. A comparison lines two results up only when their configuration, unit and setup are all stated and identical.

BenchmarkConditionsResultReported byRevisionDate
tiiuae/PBench Task averageMetric averageSetup Detection-only model combined with SAM2 to convert boxes to segmentation masks.Comparison conditions not established 49.2 Community Evals
Reported by a third party
Evaluated revision not stated 2026-05-11

Memory Requirements

PrecisionWeights in memory
As published8.9 GB
16-bit8.9 GB
8-bit4.4 GB
4-bit2.2 GB

Weights only, from the published parameter count; the key-value cache and runtime add to this.

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Questions About Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct

How much GPU memory does Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct need?

About 10.7 GB at 16-bit and 2.7 GB at 4-bit: the weights (4.4B parameters) plus a working margin. A long context needs more.

What is the cheapest GPU to run Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct on?

At 16-bit, 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour; at 4-bit, 1x MI300X from $1.85 an hour, at the lowest on-demand prices the SAVRN Index lists.

Can I use Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct commercially?

Yes. Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct is released under Apache License 2.0. The Apache License 2.0 is a permissive open-source license. It permits commercial use, modification and redistribution. It requires keeping the license and copyright notices and any NOTICE file, stating significant changes, and it includes an express patent grant from contributors.

What is Qwen3-VL-4B-Instruct's context length?

262,144 tokens, from the maximum position embeddings in its published configuration.

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