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Run Qwen3.5-0.8B locally

Qwen3.5-0.8B is a 0.9B dense model from Alibaba Cloud (Qwen) with a 262K-token context window, released under Apache License 2.0 (commercial use is allowed); the smallest listed download is 0.5 GB, the Q4_K_M GGUF build from unsloth/Qwen3.5-0.8B-GGUF.

Official weights: Qwen/Qwen3.5-0.8B - modalities: text, image, video

Total params
0.9B
Architecture
Dense
Context
262K
Smallest download
0.5 GB

Fits in

Smallest download at most 85% of memory

Downloads

The official weights and every quantization listed for this model, with file sizes from Hugging Face.

Qwen3.5-0.8B downloads and file sizes
DownloadFormatSizeRepo
Official weightsBF161.7 GBQwen/Qwen3.5-0.8B
Q4_K_MSmallest listedGGUF0.5 GBunsloth/Qwen3.5-0.8B-GGUF
Q8_0GGUF0.8 GBunsloth/Qwen3.5-0.8B-GGUF
4bitMLX0.6 GBmlx-community/Qwen3.5-0.8B-4bit

GB is decimal: 1 GB = 10^9 bytes. Add memory for the context and the operating system on top of the file size.

Run it

Copied verbatim from the page linked under each command. Server commands from model cards often assume a multi-GPU node; check the flags before you run them.

Ollama

Terminal
ollama run qwen3.5:0.8b

Source: ollama.com/library/qwen3.5:0.8b

vLLM

Terminal
vllm serve Qwen/Qwen3.5-0.8B --port 8000 --tensor-parallel-size 1 --max-model-len 262144

Source: huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.5-0.8B

SGLang

Terminal
python -m sglang.launch_server --model-path Qwen/Qwen3.5-0.8B --port 8000 --tp-size 1 --mem-fraction-static 0.8 --context-length 262144

Source: huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.5-0.8B

Transformers

Terminal
transformers serve --force-model Qwen/Qwen3.5-0.8B --port 8000 --continuous-batching

Source: huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.5-0.8B

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License

License
Apache License 2.0apache-2.0
Commercial use
Commercial use: YesCommercial use is allowed.
Gated download
No. The files download directly.

Worth knowing

The card says Qwen3.5-0.8B operates in non-thinking mode by default, and it still accepts image and video input.

Released (Hugging Face repo creation date).

FAQ

How big is the Qwen3.5-0.8B download?

The official BF16 weights in Qwen/Qwen3.5-0.8B are 1.7 GB. The smallest listed download is 0.5 GB, the Q4_K_M GGUF build from unsloth/Qwen3.5-0.8B-GGUF. Plan for more memory than the file size: the context (KV cache) and the operating system need room too.

Can I use Qwen3.5-0.8B commercially?

Qwen3.5-0.8B is released under Apache License 2.0, and commercial use is allowed. The license text is at https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.5-0.8B/blob/main/LICENSE.

How much memory do I need for Qwen3.5-0.8B?

By this directory's rule of thumb it fits in 8 GB and up: the smallest listed download, 0.5 GB, is at most 85% of 8 GB, which leaves room for the context and the operating system.

How do I run Qwen3.5-0.8B with Ollama?

Run "ollama run qwen3.5:0.8b", as shown at https://ollama.com/library/qwen3.5:0.8b. The Ollama library lists the qwen3.5:0.8b tag at 1.2GB - 1.3GB.

What is the context length of Qwen3.5-0.8B?

262,144 tokens. A longer context needs more memory for the KV cache, so you can run with a shorter one when memory is tight.

Sources

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