What are the hardware requirements for Qwen3 4B MLX 4bit?

Qwen3 4B MLX 4bit requires approximately 2.1 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 64K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Qwen3 4B MLX 4bit and how large is it?

Qwen3 4B MLX 4bit is developed by Qwen, a model with 4b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

Where can I download or evaluate Qwen3 4B MLX 4bit?

Qwen3 4B MLX 4bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Qwen3 4B MLX 4bit by Qwen — VRAM 2.1GB, 64K context

Name: Qwen3 4B MLX 4bit
Author: Qwen

Qwen3 4B MLX 4bit is an open-source language model by Qwen. Features: 4b LLM, VRAM: 2.1GB, Context: 64K, License: apache-2.0, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.23.

Arxiv:2309.00071 Arxiv:2505.09388 4-bit 4bit Conversational Mlx Quantized Qwen3 Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-4B-MLX-4bit

Qwen3 4B MLX 4bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Qwen3 4B MLX 4bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-4B-MLX-4bit
Model Size	4b
Required VRAM	2.1 GB
Updated	2026-08-07
Maintainer	Qwen
Model Type	qwen3
Model Files	2.1 GB
Quantization Type	4bit
Model Architecture	Qwen3ForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	65536
Model Max Length	65536
Transformers Version	4.51.3
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	151936
Torch Data Type	bfloat16
Errors	replace

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