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Qwen/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct

Qwen/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct is a Qwen record on this register. The Hugging Face model API lists the pipeline tag as image-text-to-text. The safetensors index gives an exact parameter count of 8,767,123,696. Architectural context length (max_position_embeddings) is 262,144. The listed licence is apache-2.0. The Hub repository was created on 11 Oct 2025, which is the release date this register uses.

Primary source: the Hugging Face model card for Qwen/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct. Fields below come from that card, the Hub model API, and the repository’s own config.json when those files exist. A field we cannot source is omitted rather than guessed.

OrganisationQwen
ReleasedRepo creation date on Hugging Face11 Oct 2025
Last modified15 Oct 2025
ParametersExact, from the safetensors index8.8B 8,767,123,696
Context lengthmax_position_embeddings — architectural maximum, not necessarily served256K 262,144
Licenceapache-2.0
Pipeline / taskpipeline_tag on the Hugging Face model APIimage-text-to-text
File formatssafetensors
Librarylibrary_name on the Hugging Face model APItransformers
Architectureqwen3_vl
Layers36
Vocabulary151,936
DownloadsAt last check6m
Likes1.2k
GatedNo

Lineage

1 conversion on this register name Qwen/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct as their base.

How to run

Safetensors weights are on the Hugging Face repository. The parameter count on this page came from that index.

The Hugging Face model API lists the library as transformers.

Load it from huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct. This page does not add install steps that the Hub files do not state.

Agent capabilities

Derived from the model’s own chat template, with the match counts behind each finding.

  • ●Tool calling23 matches in template
  • ○Reasoning / thinkingno evidence in template
  • ●System prompt2 matches in template
  • ●Image input8 matches in template
  • ●Video input8 matches in template
  • ○Audio inputno evidence in template

Questions this record can answer

When was Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct released?
The Hugging Face repository was created on 11 Oct 2025, which is the date this register uses.
How many parameters does Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct have?
The safetensors index gives 8,767,123,696 parameters, shown here as 8.8B. That figure is exact, not rounded.
What is the context length of Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct?
262,144 tokens. That is max_position_embeddings from the model's own config.json — the architectural maximum, not necessarily the context a provider serves.
What licence is Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct under?
The Hub card lists apache-2.0.
Is Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct gated?
No. The Hugging Face model API does not mark this repository as gated.
Does the Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct chat template show tool calling?
The chat template contains evidence of tool calling.

Where each field came from

  • Hugging Face model API — releasedAt, lastModified, downloads, likes, task, license, gated, parameters, libraryName, formats. Checked 18 Oct 2026.
  • config.json — contextLength, layers, vocabSize, architecture. Checked 18 Oct 2026.
  • chat template — capabilities. Checked 18 Oct 2026.

First recorded 24 Sept 2026, last checked 18 Oct 2026. This record is compiled automatically from the sources above. Where a field is blank, we could not source it and have not guessed. Canonical repository: huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct.