What are the hardware requirements for Qwen3 Coder Next 6bit?

Qwen3 Coder Next 6bit requires approximately 64.2 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 256K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Qwen3 Coder Next 6bit and how large is it?

Qwen3 Coder Next 6bit is developed by mlx-community, a model with 79.7b 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 Coder Next 6bit?

Qwen3 Coder Next 6bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Qwen3 Coder Next 6bit by mlx-community — VRAM 64.2GB, 256K context

Name: Qwen3 Coder Next 6bit
Author: mlx-community

Qwen3 Coder Next 6bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 79.7b LLM, VRAM: 64.2GB, Context: 256K, License: apache-2.0, Quantized, Code Generating, LLM Explorer Score: 0.25.

6-bit 6bit Base model:quantized:qwen/qwen... Base model:qwen/qwen3-coder-ne... Codegen Conversational Mlx Quantized Qwen3 next Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Qwen3-Coder-Next-6bit

Qwen3 Coder Next 6bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Qwen3 Coder Next 6bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Qwen3-Coder-Next-6bit
Base Model(s)	Qwen3 Coder Next Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-Next
Model Size	79.7b
Required VRAM	64.2 GB
Updated	2026-08-11
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	qwen3_next
Model Files	5.2 GB: 1-of-13 5.3 GB: 2-of-13 5.3 GB: 3-of-13 5.3 GB: 4-of-13 5.3 GB: 5-of-13 5.3 GB: 6-of-13 5.3 GB: 7-of-13 5.3 GB: 8-of-13 5.3 GB: 9-of-13 5.3 GB: 10-of-13 5.3 GB: 11-of-13 5.3 GB: 12-of-13 0.7 GB: 13-of-13
Quantization Type	6bit
Generates Code	Yes
Model Architecture	Qwen3NextForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	262144
Model Max Length	262144
Transformers Version	4.57.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	151936
Torch Data Type	bfloat16
Errors	replace

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