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Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct vs Qwen3.5 397B A17B

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Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct vs Qwen3.5 397B A17B Comparison Table

Evals updated July 10, 2026Pricing updated July 20, 2026

PropertyQwen2.5 VL 7B InstructQwen3.5 397B A17B
OrganizationQwenQwen
Categoryopenopen
Modalitymultimodalmultimodal
Release DateJan 2025Feb 2026
Context Window33K262K
Parameters7B397B
LicenseApache 2.0Apache 2.0
Pricing per 1M tokens
Input $/1M$0.390
Output $/1M$2.34
Vision Tasks
CaptioningDemoDemo
Object Detection
OCRDemoDemo
Vision Language
Visual Question AnsweringDemoDemo
Model Features
LLMs with Vision Capabilities
Multimodal Vision

Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct vs Qwen3.5 397B A17B: Overview

Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct

Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct is a 7-billion parameter vision-language model from Alibaba’s QwenLM team, released on January 26, 2025 under the Apache 2.0 license. It is the instruction-tuned variant of the 7B scale in the Qwen2.5-VL family, designed to process multimodal inputs such as text, images, charts, documents, and video. The model enables structured outputs—including JSON for structured content and bounding boxes for visual localization. Weights are publicly available on Hugging Face and GitHub, making it suitable for both research and applied multimodal use.

Qwen3.5 397B A17B

Qwen3.5-397B-A17B is a 397B-parameter (17B active) open-weight multimodal model developed by Alibaba’s Qwen team, released on 2026-02-16 under Apache-2.0. It supports text and image inputs with text outputs, combining a sparse Mixture-of-Experts architecture with Gated Delta Networks for efficient scaling. The model provides native vision-language reasoning and a large ~262K token context window, extendable to ~1M tokens.

As the first open-weight release in the Qwen3.5 family, it positions itself as a high-capacity, long-context alternative in the large vision-language space, balancing scale and efficiency via sparse activation. It is designed for advanced reasoning, coding, agent workflows, and multimodal understanding tasks.