What are the hardware requirements for VibeThinker 3B 8bit?

VibeThinker 3B 8bit requires approximately 3.3 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 128K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed VibeThinker 3B 8bit and how large is it?

VibeThinker 3B 8bit is developed by mlx-community, a model with 3b 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 VibeThinker 3B 8bit?

VibeThinker 3B 8bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

VibeThinker 3B 8bit by mlx-community — VRAM 3.3GB, 128K context

Name: VibeThinker 3B 8bit
Author: mlx-community

VibeThinker 3B 8bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 3b LLM, VRAM: 3.3GB, Context: 128K, License: mit, Quantized, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.28.

8-bit 8bit Base model:quantized:weiboai/v... Base model:weiboai/vibethinker... Code Conversational En Gpqa Instruct Instruction-following Math Mlx Quantized Qwen2 Reasoning Region:us Safetensors

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/VibeThinker-3B-8bit

VibeThinker 3B 8bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	VibeThinker 3B 8bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/VibeThinker-3B-8bit
Base Model(s)	VibeThinker 3B WeiboAI/VibeThinker-3B
Model Size	3b
Required VRAM	3.3 GB
Updated	2026-08-04
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	qwen2
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	3.3 GB
Supported Languages	en
Quantization Type	8bit
Model Architecture	Qwen2ForCausalLM
License	mit
Context Length	131072
Model Max Length	131072
Transformers Version	4.51.3
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	151936
Torch Data Type	bfloat16
Errors	replace

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