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Qwen 3 VL (8B)

Qwen 3 vision-language model. Strong OCR, document understanding, chart & UI reasoning. 128K context with native image+video inputs. Apache 2.0.

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Parameters
8B
Minimum RAM
12 GB
Model size
5.2 GB
Quantization
Q4_K_M

Can Qwen 3 VL (8B) run locally?

Qwen 3 VL (8B) is best suited for mainstream Macs and PCs with 16 GB RAM. LocalClaw recommends Q4_K_M as the default quantization, with at least 12 GB RAM.

Search term for LM Studio or compatible runtimes: qwen3-vl-8b-instruct

Hugging Face repository: Qwen/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct-GGUF

visionchatmultimodalstandard

Strengths

  • Qwen 3 vision-language model. Strong OCR, document understanding, chart & UI reasoning. 128K context with native image+video inputs. Apache 2.0.

Limitations

  • Performance depends heavily on quantization, RAM bandwidth and runtime support.

Best use cases

  • vision
  • chat
  • multimodal
  • standard

Benchmarks

Speed: 7/10

Quality: 8/10

Coding: 6/10

Reasoning: 8/10

Technical details

Developer: qwen

License: See model repository

Context window: Unknown tokens

Architecture: See model card

Released: 2025-11