Qwen3-VL Cloud Model Review
Alibaba's Qwen team has released their latest vision model, Qwen3-VL, which can run on personal hardware. We tested the 235-billion parameter cloud variant on a home server to evaluate its performance in real-world scenarios.
The model requires authentication via a unique URL generated by Ollama, and local models are expected to be released soon for offline operation.
Key discovery: Qwen3-VL 235B is a remote cloud API model, not a local installation.
- The model has 235 billion parameters.
- It requires authentication using a unique URL.
- Local models will be available soon for fully offline operation.
We used ChatGPT (gpt-5) to track the results of the 7 rigorous tests.
Author's summary: Qwen3-VL cloud model tested on home server.