What are the hardware requirements for LongCat Flash Lite 6bit?

LongCat Flash Lite 6bit requires approximately 55.5 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 320K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed LongCat Flash Lite 6bit and how large is it?

LongCat Flash Lite 6bit is developed by mlx-community, a model with 68.6b 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 LongCat Flash Lite 6bit?

LongCat Flash Lite 6bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

LongCat Flash Lite 6bit by mlx-community — VRAM 55.5GB, 320K context

Name: LongCat Flash Lite 6bit
Author: mlx-community

LongCat Flash Lite 6bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 68.6b LLM, VRAM: 55.5GB, Context: 320K, License: mit, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.22.

6-bit 6bit Base model:meituan-longcat/lon... Base model:quantized:meituan-l... Conversational Custom code Longcat flash ngram Mlx Quantized Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/LongCat-Flash-Lite-6bit

LongCat Flash Lite 6bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	LongCat Flash Lite 6bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/LongCat-Flash-Lite-6bit
Base Model(s)	LongCat Flash Lite meituan-longcat/LongCat-Flash-Lite
Model Size	68.6b
Required VRAM	55.5 GB
Updated	2026-07-23
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	longcat_flash_ngram
Model Files	4.6 GB: 1-of-12 4.2 GB: 2-of-12 4.2 GB: 3-of-12 4.2 GB: 4-of-12 4.2 GB: 5-of-12 4.9 GB: 6-of-12 4.9 GB: 7-of-12 5.0 GB: 8-of-12 4.9 GB: 9-of-12 4.9 GB: 10-of-12 5.0 GB: 11-of-12 4.5 GB: 12-of-12
Quantization Type	6bit
Model Architecture	LongcatFlashNgramForCausalLM
License	mit
Context Length	327680
Model Max Length	327680
Transformers Version	4.57.6
Tokenizer Class	TokenizersBackend
Padding Token	<longcat_pad>
Vocabulary Size	131072
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Best Alternatives to LongCat Flash Lite 6bit

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
LongCat Flash Lite 8bit	320K / 73.3 GB	57	1
LongCat Flash Lite 4bit DWQ	320K / 38.5 GB	25	1
...d Heretic Native MTP Preserved	320K / 136.8 GB	0	2

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than mlx-community/LongCat-Flash-Lite-6bit.