What are the hardware requirements for Qwen3.5 27B 4bit?

Qwen3.5 27B 4bit requires approximately 16 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Qwen3.5 27B 4bit and how large is it?

Qwen3.5 27B 4bit is developed by mlx-community, a model with 27b 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 Qwen3.5 27B 4bit?

Qwen3.5 27B 4bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Qwen3.5 27B 4bit by mlx-community — VRAM 16GB

Name: Qwen3.5 27B 4bit
Author: mlx-community

Qwen3.5 27B 4bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 27b LLM, VRAM: 16GB, License: apache-2.0, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.28.

4-bit 4bit Conversational Endpoints compatible Image-text-to-text Mlx Quantized Qwen3 5 Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Qwen3.5-27B-4bit

Qwen3.5 27B 4bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Qwen3.5 27B 4bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Qwen3.5-27B-4bit
Model Size	27b
Required VRAM	16 GB
Updated	2026-08-08
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	qwen3_5
Model Files	5.3 GB: 1-of-3 5.3 GB: 2-of-3 5.4 GB: 3-of-3
Quantization Type	4bit
Model Architecture	Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration
License	apache-2.0
Model Max Length	262144
Transformers Version	4.57.0.dev0
Tokenizer Class	TokenizersBackend
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Errors	replace

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Best Alternatives to Qwen3.5 27B 4bit

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Qwen3.6 27B OptiQ 4bit	256K / 18.7 GB	13065	59
Bonsai 27B Mlx 1bit	0K / 5.1 GB	809309	205
Ternary Bonsai 27B Mlx 2bit	0K / 8.5 GB	809024	168
Qwen3.8 27B MLX 5bit	0K / 19.5 GB	4675044	2
...onsai 2 27B CRACK Ternary JANG	0K / 8.1 GB	2689	13
Qwen3.6 27B MLX 8bit	0K / 29.4 GB	879145	14
Qwen3.6 27B MLX 6bit	0K / 22.7 GB	812977	2
Ternary Bonsai 2 27B Vllm	0K / 10.3 GB	2048	4
Qwen3.8 27B 8bit	0K / 29.4 GB	13892	33
Qwen3.6 27B MLX 4bit	0K / 16 GB	846861	16

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than mlx-community/Qwen3.5-27B-4bit.