What are the hardware requirements for Phi 4 Mini Instruct Mlx 8Bit?

Phi 4 Mini Instruct Mlx 8Bit requires approximately 4.1 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 Phi 4 Mini Instruct Mlx 8Bit and how large is it?

Phi 4 Mini Instruct Mlx 8Bit is developed by mlx-community, a model with 3.8b 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 Phi 4 Mini Instruct Mlx 8Bit?

Phi 4 Mini Instruct Mlx 8Bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Phi 4 Mini Instruct Mlx 8Bit by mlx-community — VRAM 4.1GB, 128K context

Name: Phi 4 Mini Instruct Mlx 8Bit
Author: mlx-community

Phi 4 Mini Instruct Mlx 8Bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 3.8b LLM, VRAM: 4.1GB, Context: 128K, License: mit, Quantized, Instruction-Based.

8-bit 8bit Ar Base model:microsoft/phi-4-min... Base model:quantized:microsoft... Code Conversational Cs Custom code Da De En Endpoints compatible Es Fi Fr He Hu Instruct It Ja Ko Mlx Mlx-my-repo Multilingual Nl No Phi3 Pl Pt Quantized Region:us Ru Safetensors Sv Th Tr Uk Zh

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Phi-4-mini-instruct-mlx-8Bit

Phi 4 Mini Instruct Mlx 8Bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Phi 4 Mini Instruct Mlx 8Bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Phi-4-mini-instruct-mlx-8Bit
Base Model(s)	Phi 4 Mini Instruct microsoft/Phi-4-mini-instruct
Model Size	3.8b
Required VRAM	4.1 GB
Updated	2026-10-27
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	phi3
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	4.1 GB
Supported Languages	ar zh cs da nl en fi fr de he hu it ja ko no pl pt ru es sv th tr uk
Quantization Type	8bit
Model Architecture	Phi3ForCausalLM
License	mit
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.45.0
Tokenizer Class	TokenizersBackend
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	200064
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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