What are the hardware requirements for K2 Horizon 7B 4bit?

K2 Horizon 7B 4bit requires approximately 7.2 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 512K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed K2 Horizon 7B 4bit and how large is it?

K2 Horizon 7B 4bit is developed by mlx-community, a model with 7b 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 K2 Horizon 7B 4bit?

K2 Horizon 7B 4bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

K2 Horizon 7B 4bit by mlx-community — VRAM 7.2GB, 512K context

Name: K2 Horizon 7B 4bit
Author: mlx-community

K2 Horizon 7B 4bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 7b LLM, VRAM: 7.2GB, Context: 512K, License: apache-2.0, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.29.

4-bit 4bit Base model:ifm/k2-horizon-7b Base model:quantized:ifm/k2-ho... Conversational Dense K2-horizon K2 horizon Mlx Quantized Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/K2-Horizon-7B-4bit

K2 Horizon 7B 4bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	K2 Horizon 7B 4bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/K2-Horizon-7B-4bit
Base Model(s)	K2 Horizon 7B IFM/K2-Horizon-7B
Model Size	7b
Required VRAM	7.2 GB
Updated	2026-10-09
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	k2_horizon
Model Files	5.4 GB: 1-of-2 1.8 GB: 2-of-2
Quantization Type	4bit
Model Architecture	K2HorizonForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	524288
Model Max Length	524288
Transformers Version	5.13.0
Tokenizer Class	TokenizersBackend
Vocabulary Size	250624

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Best Alternatives to K2 Horizon 7B 4bit

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
K2 Horizon 7B MLX 4bit	512K / 5.1 GB	375	3
K2 Horizon 7B	512K / 18.5 GB	590	56
Jais 3 7B	512K / 17.9 GB	875	5
K2 Horizon 7B Heretic	512K / 18 GB	193	0
K2 Horizon 7B Uno Merged	512K / 18 GB	475	2
K2 Horizon 7B Uno OQ6e	512K / 7.5 GB	348	1
K2 Horizon 7B OQ6e	512K / 7.5 GB	352	2
BetterWright K2 Horizon 7B Uno	512K / 18 GB	168	1
K2 Horizon 7B FP8	512K / 11.1 GB	185	6

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than mlx-community/K2-Horizon-7B-4bit.