What are the hardware requirements for Qwen2.5 Coder 3B Instruct 4bit?

Qwen2.5 Coder 3B Instruct 4bit requires approximately 1.7 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 3B Instruct 4bit and how large is it?

Qwen2.5 Coder 3B Instruct 4bit is developed by mlx-community, a model with 3b 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 Qwen2.5 Coder 3B Instruct 4bit?

Qwen2.5 Coder 3B Instruct 4bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Qwen2.5 Coder 3B Instruct 4bit by mlx-community — VRAM 1.7GB, 32K context

Name: Qwen2.5 Coder 3B Instruct 4bit
Author: mlx-community

Qwen2.5 Coder 3B Instruct 4bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 3b LLM, VRAM: 1.7GB, Context: 32K, License: other, Quantized, Instruction-Based, Code Generating, LLM Explorer Score: 0.17.

4-bit 4bit Base model:quantized:qwen/qwen... Base model:qwen/qwen2.5-coder-... Chat Code Codegen Codeqwen Conversational Deploy:azure En Endpoints compatible Instruct Mlx Quantized Qwen Qwen-coder Qwen2 Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Qwen2.5-Coder-3B-Instruct-4bit

Qwen2.5 Coder 3B Instruct 4bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Qwen2.5 Coder 3B Instruct 4bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Qwen2.5-Coder-3B-Instruct-4bit
Base Model(s)	Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-3B-Instruct Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-3B-Instruct
Model Size	3b
Required VRAM	1.7 GB
Updated	2026-05-08
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	qwen2
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	1.7 GB
Supported Languages	en
Quantization Type	4bit
Generates Code	Yes
Model Architecture	Qwen2ForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	32768
Model Max Length	32768
Transformers Version	4.43.1
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	151936
Torch Data Type	bfloat16
Errors	replace

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