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Alibaba · Released 2026-04

Qwen3.6 7B

7B variant of Qwen3.6 with vision support. Punches above its weight class, with the broadest language coverage of any 7B model.

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Params (max)
7B
Variants
7B
Context window
128K tokens
MMLU
76.4
HumanEval
75
GSM8K
84.6
Min VRAM (fp16, smallest variant)
16GB
Smallest Q4 GGUF
~4.5GB
Languages supported
119
Pros
  • ✓Best multilingual small model
  • ✓Vision included
  • ✓Permissive license
Cons
  • ×Smaller fine-tune community
  • ×Vision tuned heavier on Chinese

Highlights

  • ●Vision in 7B
  • ●119 languages
  • ●Strong code at small size

Where to download

Hugging Face: Qwen/Qwen3.6-7B-Instruct
Or via Ollama (ollama pull qwen-3.6-7b) or LM Studio's in-app browser.
Homepage: https://qwenlm.ai

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