qwen
7B parameters
Commercial OK
Multimodal
Reviewed May 2026

Qwen 2.5-VL 7B

Consumer-tier Qwen 2.5 VL. 7B + vision. Fits 8GB cards; the smallest practical multimodal Qwen.

License: Apache 2.0·Released Mar 10, 2025·Context: 32,768 tokens

Overview

Consumer-tier Qwen 2.5 VL. 7B + vision. Fits 8GB cards; the smallest practical multimodal Qwen.

Family & lineage

How this model relates to others in its lineage. Family members share architecture and training-data roots; parent / children edges record direct distillation or fine-tune relationships.

Parent / base model
Qwen 2.5-VL 72B72B
Datacenter
Family siblings (qwen-vl)
Qwen 2.5-VL 3B3B
Edge
Qwen 2.5-VL 7B7B
You are here
Qwen 2-VL 7B7B
Consumer
Qwen 2.5-VL 72B72B
Datacenter
Distilled / fine-tuned from this
Qwen 2-VL 7B7B
Consumer
Qwen 2.5-VL 3B3B
Edge

Strengths

  • Apache 2.0
  • Consumer-tier multimodal
  • Strong OCR

Weaknesses

  • 7B ceiling limits reasoning depth on complex visual tasks

Quantization variants

Each quantization trades model quality for file size and VRAM. Q4_K_M is the most popular starting point.

QuantizationFile sizeVRAM required
Q4_K_M4.4 GB6 GB

Get the model

HuggingFace

Original weights

huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct

Source repository — direct quantization required.

Hardware that runs this

Cards with enough VRAM for at least one quantization of Qwen 2.5-VL 7B.

NVIDIA GB200 NVL72
13824GB · nvidia
AMD Instinct MI355X
288GB · amd
AMD Instinct MI325X
256GB · amd
AMD Instinct MI300X
192GB · amd
NVIDIA B200
192GB · nvidia
NVIDIA H100 NVL
188GB · nvidia
NVIDIA H200
141GB · nvidia
Intel Gaudi 3
128GB · intel
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Frequently asked

What's the minimum VRAM to run Qwen 2.5-VL 7B?

6GB of VRAM is enough to run Qwen 2.5-VL 7B at the Q4_K_M quantization (file size 4.4 GB). Higher-quality quantizations need more.

Can I use Qwen 2.5-VL 7B commercially?

Yes — Qwen 2.5-VL 7B ships under the Apache 2.0, which permits commercial use. Always read the license text before deployment.

What's the context length of Qwen 2.5-VL 7B?

Qwen 2.5-VL 7B supports a context window of 32,768 tokens (about 33K).

Does Qwen 2.5-VL 7B support images?

Yes — Qwen 2.5-VL 7B is multimodal and accepts text + vision inputs. Vision support requires a runner that handles its image-conditioning architecture.

Source: huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct

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