What are the hardware requirements for Qwen3 VL 4B Thinking 3bit?

Qwen3 VL 4B Thinking 3bit requires approximately 2.6 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Qwen3 VL 4B Thinking 3bit and how large is it?

Qwen3 VL 4B Thinking 3bit 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 VL 4B Thinking 3bit?

Qwen3 VL 4B Thinking 3bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Qwen3 VL 4B Thinking 3bit by mlx-community — VRAM 2.6GB

Name: Qwen3 VL 4B Thinking 3bit
Author: mlx-community

Qwen3 VL 4B Thinking 3bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 4b LLM, VRAM: 2.6GB, License: apache-2.0, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.2.

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Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Qwen3-VL-4B-Thinking-3bit

Qwen3 VL 4B Thinking 3bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Qwen3 VL 4B Thinking 3bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Qwen3-VL-4B-Thinking-3bit
Model Size	4b
Required VRAM	2.6 GB
Updated	2026-08-24
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	qwen3_vl
Model Files	2.6 GB
Quantization Type	3bit
Model Architecture	Qwen3VLForConditionalGeneration
License	apache-2.0
Model Max Length	262144
Transformers Version	4.57.0
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Errors	replace

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Qwen3 VL 4B Instruct 3bit	0K / 2.6 GB	275	4
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