Qwen2-VL-2B-Instruct: GPU memory and hosting cost
Open weights · 2.21 billion parameters · 32,768-token context · licence apache-2.0
No cloud sells this model per token: to use it you run it yourself, on GPU instances you rent.
Run it yourself
It needs 5.5 GB of GPU memory at bf16, the precision it ships in.
| Cloud | Cheapest instance that fits | GPUs | An hour | A month, around the clock |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AWS | g4dn.xlarge | 1 × T4 16 GB | $0.526 | $384 |
| Azure | Standard_NC4as_T4_v3 | 1 × T4 16 GB | $0.526 | $384 |
| Google Cloud | g2-standard-4 | 1 × L4 24 GB | $0.7068 | $516 |
| Alibaba Cloud | ecs.gn6i-c4g1.xlarge | 1 × T4 16 GB | $1.12 | $816 |
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