Alibaba · 8.8B · Dense
The community-favourite local VLM — superb OCR, receipts & captioning Check if your GPU or Mac can run Qwen3-VL 8B locally — 4.9 GB min, 8.2 GB recommended.
2025-10256K context
| Quant | Bits | VRAM | Quality | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q2_K | 2 | 3.3 GB | low | — |
| Q3_K_M | 3 | 4.4 GB | moderate | — |
| Q4_K_M | 4 | 5 GB | good | — |
| Q5_K_M | 5 | 6.1 GB | good | — |
| Q6_K | 6 | 7.3 GB | excellent | — |
| Q8_0 | 8 | 9.5 GB | excellent | — |
| F16 | 16 | 18.5 GB | lossless | — |
Can I run Qwen3-VL 8B locally?
- Can I run Qwen3-VL 8B locally?
- Qwen3-VL 8B needs about 4.9 GB of memory at a minimum and 8.2 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 Qwen3-VL 8B need?
- At Q4_K_M, Qwen3-VL 8B uses about 5 GB of VRAM. Higher quants need more memory; lower quants fit tighter cards with a quality tradeoff.