What are the hardware requirements for Qwen3.5 9B Kimi K3 Distilled?

Qwen3.5 9B Kimi K3 Distilled requires approximately 19.3 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Qwen3.5 9B Kimi K3 Distilled and how large is it?

Qwen3.5 9B Kimi K3 Distilled is developed by khazarai, a model with 9b 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 Qwen3.5 9B Kimi K3 Distilled?

Qwen3.5 9B Kimi K3 Distilled is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Qwen3.5 9B Kimi K3 Distilled by khazarai — VRAM 19.3GB

Name: Qwen3.5 9B Kimi K3 Distilled
Author: khazarai

Qwen3.5 9B Kimi K3 Distilled is an open-source language model by khazarai. Features: 9b LLM, VRAM: 19.3GB, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.3.

Agent Base model:finetune:unsloth/qw... Base model:unsloth/qwen3.5-9b Coding Conversational Dataset:greghavens/kimi-k3-cod... Distilled En Endpoints compatible Image-text-to-text Kimi-k3 Qwen3 5 Reasoning Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow Unsloth

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/khazarai/Qwen3.5-9B-Kimi-k3-Distilled

Qwen3.5 9B Kimi K3 Distilled Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Qwen3.5 9B Kimi K3 Distilled
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/khazarai/Qwen3.5-9B-Kimi-k3-Distilled
Base Model(s)	unsloth/Qwen3.5-9B unsloth/Qwen3.5-9B
Model Size	9b
Required VRAM	19.3 GB
Updated	2026-09-18
Maintainer	khazarai
Model Type	qwen3_5
Model Files	5.3 GB: 1-of-4 5.3 GB: 2-of-4 5.4 GB: 3-of-4 3.3 GB: 4-of-4
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration
License	apache-2.0
Model Max Length	262144
Tokenizer Class	TokenizersBackend
Padding Token	<\|vision_pad\|>
Errors	replace

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