What are the hardware requirements for Spark X2.5 4B MLX 8bit?

Spark X2.5 4B MLX 8bit requires approximately 4.4 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 1024K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Spark X2.5 4B MLX 8bit and how large is it?

Spark X2.5 4B MLX 8bit is developed by abenzerps, 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 Spark X2.5 4B MLX 8bit?

Spark X2.5 4B MLX 8bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Spark X2.5 4B MLX 8bit by abenzerps — VRAM 4.4GB, 1024K context

Name: Spark X2.5 4B MLX 8bit
Author: abenzerps

Spark X2.5 4B MLX 8bit is an open-source language model by abenzerps. Features: 4b LLM, VRAM: 4.4GB, Context: 1024K, License: apache-2.0, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.34.

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Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/abenzerps/Spark-X2.5-4B-MLX-8bit

Spark X2.5 4B MLX 8bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Spark X2.5 4B MLX 8bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/abenzerps/Spark-X2.5-4B-MLX-8bit
Base Model(s)	XHToken/Spark-X2.5-4B XHToken/Spark-X2.5-4B
Model Size	4b
Required VRAM	4.4 GB
Updated	2026-09-04
Maintainer	abenzerps
Model Type	spark2_5
Model Files	4.4 GB
Quantization Type	8bit
Model Architecture	Spark2_5ForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	1048576
Model Max Length	1048576
Transformers Version	4.57.1
Tokenizer Class	TokenizersBackend
Padding Token	<｜▁pad▁｜>
Vocabulary Size	131072

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Best Alternatives to Spark X2.5 4B MLX 8bit

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
Spark X2.5 4B MLX 4bit	1024K / 2.3 GB	617	2
Spark X2.5 4B	1024K / 8.3 GB	429	106
Spark X2.5 4B Base	1024K / 8.3 GB	16	5

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than abenzerps/Spark-X2.5-4B-MLX-8bit.