What are the hardware requirements for Jan Nano 128K 4bit?

Jan Nano 128K 4bit requires approximately 2.3 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 128K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Jan Nano 128K 4bit and how large is it?

Jan Nano 128K 4bit is developed by mlx-community, a model with 628.7m 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 Jan Nano 128K 4bit?

Jan Nano 128K 4bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Jan Nano 128K 4bit by mlx-community — VRAM 2.3GB, 128K context

Name: Jan Nano 128K 4bit
Author: mlx-community

Jan Nano 128K 4bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 628.7m LLM, VRAM: 2.3GB, Context: 128K, License: apache-2.0, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.19.

4-bit 4bit Base model:menlo/jan-nano-128k Base model:quantized:menlo/jan... Conversational En Mlx Quantized Qwen3 Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Jan-nano-128k-4bit

Jan Nano 128K 4bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Jan Nano 128K 4bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Jan-nano-128k-4bit
Base Model(s)	Jan Nano 128K Menlo/Jan-nano-128k
Model Size	628.7m
Required VRAM	2.3 GB
Updated	2026-07-23
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	qwen3
Model Files	2.3 GB
Supported Languages	en
Quantization Type	4bit
Model Architecture	Qwen3ForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.52.4
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	151936
Torch Data Type	bfloat16
Errors	replace

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