Model comparison
Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B vs Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct
At Q4_K_M, Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct is the smaller download — 1,107,409,952 bytes against 1,107,410,528.
From the file· summed bytes, KV per layer
Side by side
| Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B | Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct | |
|---|---|---|
| Parameters | 2.1B | 2.1B |
| Architecture | qwen3vl | qwen3vl |
| Layers | 28 | 28 |
| Native context | 262,144 | 262,144 |
| Mixture of experts | no | no |
| Quantizations published | 11 | 46 |
| Smallest quantization | 0.72 GiB | 0.50 GiB |
| Q4_K_M | 1.03 GiB | 1.03 GiB |
| Licence | — | apache-2.0 |
KV cache by context
the term that decides long-context viability
| Context | Qwen3-VL-Embedding-2B | Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4,096 | 0.44 GiB | 0.44 GiB | 1.00× |
| 8,192 | 0.88 GiB | 0.88 GiB | 1.00× |
| 16,384 | 1.75 GiB | 1.75 GiB | 1.00× |
| 32,768 | 3.50 GiB | 3.50 GiB | 1.00× |
| 65,536 | 7.00 GiB | 7.00 GiB | 1.00× |
| 131,072 | 14.00 GiB | 14.00 GiB | 1.00× |