Alibaba · 235B (22B active) · Mixture of Experts
Flagship vision-language MoE — frontier multimodal reasoning and agentic GUI control Check if your GPU or Mac can run Qwen 3 VL 235B-A22B locally — 131.3 GB min, 218.9 GB recommended.
2025-11256K context
Mixture of Experts
Total experts: 128
Active experts: 8
Active params: 22.0B
| Quant | Bits | VRAM | Quality | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q2_K | 2 | 75.7 GB | low | — |
| Q3_K_M | 3 | 105.8 GB | moderate | — |
| Q4_K_M | 4 | 120.9 GB | good | — |
| Q5_K_M | 5 | 151 GB | good | — |
| Q6_K | 6 | 181.1 GB | excellent | — |
| Q8_0 | 8 | 241.2 GB | excellent | — |
| F16 | 16 | 482 GB | lossless | — |
Can I run Qwen 3 VL 235B-A22B locally?
- Can I run Qwen 3 VL 235B-A22B locally?
- Qwen 3 VL 235B-A22B needs about 131.3 GB of memory at a minimum and 218.9 GB recommended. Open this page to grade it against your GPU or Mac, then run it with runai, Ollama or LM Studio.
- How much VRAM does Qwen 3 VL 235B-A22B need?
- At Q4_K_M, Qwen 3 VL 235B-A22B uses about 120.9 GB of VRAM. Higher quants need more memory; lower quants fit tighter cards with a quality tradeoff.