What are the hardware requirements for Qwen3 4B Bf16?

Qwen3 4B Bf16 requires approximately 8 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 40K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Qwen3 4B Bf16 and how large is it?

Qwen3 4B Bf16 is developed by mlx-community, a model with 4b 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 Qwen3 4B Bf16?

Qwen3 4B Bf16 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Qwen3 4B Bf16 by mlx-community — VRAM 8GB, 40K context

Name: Qwen3 4B Bf16
Author: mlx-community

Qwen3 4B Bf16 is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 4b LLM, VRAM: 8GB, Context: 40K, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.19.

Base model:finetune:qwen/qwen3... Base model:qwen/qwen3-4b Conversational Mlx Qwen3 Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Qwen3-4B-bf16

Qwen3 4B Bf16 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Qwen3 4B Bf16
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Qwen3-4B-bf16
Base Model(s)	Qwen/Qwen3-4B Qwen/Qwen3-4B
Model Size	4b
Required VRAM	8 GB
Updated	2026-07-29
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	qwen3
Model Files	5.3 GB: 1-of-2 2.7 GB: 2-of-2
Model Architecture	Qwen3ForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	40960
Model Max Length	40960
Transformers Version	4.51.0
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	151936
Torch Data Type	bfloat16
Errors	replace

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