What are the hardware requirements for Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct 3bit?

Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct 3bit requires approximately 14.3 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 32K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct 3bit and how large is it?

Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct 3bit is developed by mlx-community, a model with 32b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

How does Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct 3bit perform on standard benchmarks?

Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct 3bit has the following published scores: HumanEval (Python) 83.2, LMSYS ELO 1220. Compare against reference models on this page or on the LLM Explorer leaderboards.

Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct 3bit by mlx-community — VRAM 14.3GB, 32K context

Name: Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct 3bit
Author: mlx-community

Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct 3bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 32b LLM, VRAM: 14.3GB, Context: 32K, License: apache-2.0, Quantized, Instruction-Based, Code Generating, LLM Explorer Score: 0.28, ELO: 1220, HumanEval: 83.2.

3-bit 3bit Base model:quantized:qwen/qwen... Base model:qwen/qwen2.5-coder-... Chat Code Codegen Codeqwen Conversational En Endpoints compatible Instruct Mlx Quantized Qwen Qwen-coder Qwen2 Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct-3bit

Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct 3bit Benchmarks

LMSys ELO 1220 vs 1272 (so35) -4.1%

^nn.n% — How the model compares to the reference models: Anthropic Sonnet 3.5 ("so35"), GPT-4o ("gpt4o") or GPT-4 ("gpt4").

What is the LLM Explorer Rank (Score)

Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct 3bit Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text generation

Additional Notes

The model was converted into MLX format using mlx-lm version 0.19.3.

Supported Languages

en (high)

Input Output

Input Format:

chat-based prompt

Accepted Modalities:

text

LLM Name	Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct 3bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct-3bit
Base Model(s)	Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct
Model Size	32b
Required VRAM	14.3 GB
Updated	2026-08-01
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	qwen2
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	5.3 GB: 1-of-3 5.3 GB: 2-of-3 3.7 GB: 3-of-3
Supported Languages	en
Quantization Type	3bit
Generates Code	Yes
Model Architecture	Qwen2ForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	32768
Model Max Length	32768
Transformers Version	4.43.1
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	152064
Torch Data Type	bfloat16
Errors	replace

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Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than mlx-community/Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct-3bit.