diff --git a/packages/core/src/core/modalityDefaults.test.ts b/packages/core/src/core/modalityDefaults.test.ts
index db7b968a887..66d5a514959 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/core/modalityDefaults.test.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/core/modalityDefaults.test.ts
@@ -135,6 +135,9 @@ describe('defaultModalities', () => {
       ['qwen-vl-max', ONLY_IMAGE_VIDEO],
       ['qwen3-vl-plus', has({ image: true, video: true })],
       ['qwen2.5-vl-32b-instruct', ONLY_IMAGE_VIDEO],
+      ['Ollama qwen3-vl tags', ONLY_IMAGE_VIDEO, 'qwen3-vl:8b'],
+      ['Ollama qwen2.5vl tags', ONLY_IMAGE_VIDEO, 'qwen2.5vl:7b'],
+      ['qwen2.5-vl without a size', ONLY_IMAGE_VIDEO, 'qwen2.5-vl'],
       [
         'quantized Qwen2.5-VL builds',
         ONLY_IMAGE_VIDEO,
diff --git a/packages/core/src/core/modalityDefaults.ts b/packages/core/src/core/modalityDefaults.ts
index 7881db654ff..c09fbbaea4f 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/core/modalityDefaults.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/core/modalityDefaults.ts
@@ -59,10 +59,12 @@ const MODALITY_PATTERNS: Array<[RegExp, InputModalities]> = [
 
   // Qwen VL (vision-language) models: image + video
   [/^qwen-vl-/, { image: true, video: true }],
-  [/^qwen3-vl-/, { image: true, video: true }],
+  // Ollama names these `qwen3-vl:8b` and `qwen2.5vl:7b`, so the tag strip
+  // leaves a bare `qwen3-vl` or a `qwen2.5vl` with no hyphen.
+  [/^qwen3-?vl(?:-|$)/, { image: true, video: true }],
   // Open-weight Qwen2-VL / Qwen2.5-VL, including sizes and quantized builds
   // the bundled catalog has no entry for (32B, 3B, -AWQ, -FP8).
-  [/^qwen2(?:\.5)?-vl-/, { image: true, video: true }],
+  [/^qwen2(?:\.5)?-?vl(?:-|$)/, { image: true, video: true }],
   // QVQ visual reasoning models.
   [/^qvq-/, { image: true }],