# qwen3-vl-8b-hebrew-v20a-merged by Isaac Godfried: Open Model
Source: https://savrn.com/models/qwen3-vl-8b-hebrew-v20a-merged
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## Runs On

What it takes to serve qwen3-vl-8b-hebrew-v20a-merged (8.8B parameters): the memory its weights need at each precision, and the cheapest way to rent enough data-center GPUs to hold them.

| Precision | Weights | Memory needed | Cheapest setup | Per hour | Also fits |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 16-bit | 17.5 GB | 21.0 GB | 1x [MI300X](https://savrn.com/ai-index/pricing/gpus/mi300x) (192 GB) Vultr | $1.85 | [1x H100](https://savrn.com/ai-index/pricing/gpus/h100) $1.99 · [1x MI325X](https://savrn.com/ai-index/pricing/gpus/mi325x) $2.00 |
| 8-bit | 8.8 GB | 10.5 GB | 1x [MI300X](https://savrn.com/ai-index/pricing/gpus/mi300x) (192 GB) Vultr | $1.85 | [1x H100](https://savrn.com/ai-index/pricing/gpus/h100) $1.99 · [1x MI325X](https://savrn.com/ai-index/pricing/gpus/mi325x) $2.00 |
| 4-bit | 4.4 GB | 5.3 GB | 1x [MI300X](https://savrn.com/ai-index/pricing/gpus/mi300x) (192 GB) Vultr | $1.85 | [1x H100](https://savrn.com/ai-index/pricing/gpus/h100) $1.99 · [1x MI325X](https://savrn.com/ai-index/pricing/gpus/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](https://savrn.com/ai-index/pricing/gpus), read Oct 12, 2026.

[qwen3-vl-8b-hebrew-v20a-merged on every accelerator the SAVRN Index prices, at every precision](https://savrn.com/models/qwen3-vl-8b-hebrew-v20a-merged/gpus)

## Model Card

By Isaac Godfried, published under apache-2.0, revision 48a0e3993f1b.

### Qwen3-VL-8B Hebrew v2.0a — merged weights (step 1800)

[Cairo Genizah AI Transcription — formal analysis and write-up of the project](https://medium.com/deep-data-science/transcribing-the-cairo-genizah-with-multi-modal-ai-ad4cd9cbe980) The full account of the methods, training data, benchmarks and error analysis behind the Cairo Genizah AI transcription models. Search the transcribed corpus at [Cairo Genizah AI](https://cairogenizah.ai).

Merged bf16 weights of the v2.0a checkpoint ([v20a-ckpt](https://savrn.com/models/qwen3-vl-8b-hebrew-v20a-ckpt), step 1800, commit af9df6a0): the LoRA adapters (language layers r16, vision tower) folded into Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct. Ready for transformers, vLLM, or conversion. The image processor ships the model's resolution contract (min_pixels=6_500_000, max_pixels=7_000_000): send the largest image you have and let the processor resize it.

Status: current best of the series on both transcription benchmarks (Sep 2026) and the first checkpoint with text grounding. Serving demo: the Genizah Reader Space.

### What it does

[Read the full model card (510 words)](https://savrn.com/models/qwen3-vl-8b-hebrew-v20a-merged/card)

## Configuration

Architecture

Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration

Context length (tokens)

262,144

Layers

36

Hidden size

4,096

Feed-forward size

12,288

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

isaacmg/qwen3-vl-8b-hebrew-v20a-merged

Publisher

Isaac Godfried

Task

Image and text to text

Modality

Image and text

Library

transformers

Parameters

8.8B parameters

Languages

he

Revision

48a0e3993f1b7b3a057901b5d24fba0648e6dbfc

First published

2026-09-10

Last updated

2026-10-05

## Files and Weights

18 files, 17.6 GB in total. The weights are 4 files totalling 17.5 GB in safetensors.

Weights4 files · 17.5 GB

Configuration7 files · 72.5 KB

Tokenizer4 files · 15.9 MB

Documentation1 file · 4.6 KB

Other1 file · 5.3 KB

Repository1 file · 1.6 KB

Every file

| File | Type | Size | SHA-256 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| model-00001-of-00004.safetensors | Weights | 5.0 GB | 398fd584a0d4 |
| model-00002-of-00004.safetensors | Weights | 4.9 GB | 676af639d1cb |
| model-00003-of-00004.safetensors | Weights | 4.9 GB | a49f612eefab |
| model-00004-of-00004.safetensors | Weights | 2.7 GB | 8e0ea4b4bf4b |
| added_tokens.json | Configuration | 707 B | — |
| config.json | Configuration | 1.5 KB | — |
| generation_config.json | Configuration | 213 B | — |
| model.safetensors.index.json | Configuration | 67.8 KB | — |
| preprocessor_config.json | Configuration | 788 B | — |
| special_tokens_map.json | Configuration | 613 B | — |
| video_preprocessor_config.json | Configuration | 817 B | — |
| README.md | Documentation | 4.6 KB | — |
| chat_template.jinja | Other | 5.3 KB | — |
| .gitattributes | Repository | 1.6 KB | — |
| merges.txt | Tokenizer | 1.7 MB | — |
| tokenizer.json | Tokenizer | 11.4 MB | aeb13307a71a |
| tokenizer_config.json | Tokenizer | 5.4 KB | — |
| vocab.json | Tokenizer | 2.8 MB | — |

## License and Download

License

apache-2.0

Access

Open weights, no gate

Download size

17.5 GB

[Download from Isaac Godfried](https://huggingface.co/isaacmg/qwen3-vl-8b-hebrew-v20a-merged)

Released by Isaac Godfried through its official repository on Hugging Face. [Read the license](https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0).

## Built From

- Derived from [Qwen/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct](https://savrn.com/models/qwen3-vl-8b-instruct)

## Memory Requirements

| Precision | Weights in memory |
| --- | --- |
| As published | 17.5 GB |
| 16-bit | 17.5 GB |
| 8-bit | 8.8 GB |
| 4-bit | 4.4 GB |

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

## Questions About qwen3-vl-8b-hebrew-v20a-merged

### How much GPU memory does qwen3-vl-8b-hebrew-v20a-merged need?

About 21 GB at 16-bit and 5.3 GB at 4-bit: the weights (8.8B parameters) plus a working margin. A long context needs more.

### What is the cheapest GPU to run qwen3-vl-8b-hebrew-v20a-merged 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-8b-hebrew-v20a-merged commercially?

Yes. qwen3-vl-8b-hebrew-v20a-merged 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-8b-hebrew-v20a-merged's context length?

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

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