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

Qwen3.5 4B MLX 4bit requires approximately 3 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

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

Qwen3.5 4B MLX 4bit 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 Qwen3.5 4B MLX 4bit?

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

Qwen3.5 4B MLX 4bit by mlx-community — VRAM 3GB

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

Qwen3.5 4B MLX 4bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 4b LLM, VRAM: 3GB, License: apache-2.0, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.29.

4-bit 4bit Base model:quantized:qwen/qwen... Base model:qwen/qwen3.5-4b Mlx Quantized Qwen3.5 Qwen3 5 Region:us Safetensors Vision Vision-language-model

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

Qwen3.5 4B MLX 4bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Qwen3.5 4B MLX 4bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Qwen3.5-4B-MLX-4bit
Base Model(s)	Qwen/Qwen3.5-4B Qwen/Qwen3.5-4B
Model Size	4b
Required VRAM	3 GB
Updated	2026-08-06
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	qwen3_5
Model Files	3.0 GB
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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