What are the hardware requirements for Flint OptiQ 4bit?

Flint OptiQ 4bit requires approximately 27.6 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 Flint OptiQ 4bit and how large is it?

Flint OptiQ 4bit is developed by mlx-community, a model with 39.8b 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 Flint OptiQ 4bit?

Flint OptiQ 4bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Flint OptiQ 4bit by mlx-community — VRAM 27.6GB, 256K context

Name: Flint OptiQ 4bit
Author: mlx-community

Flint OptiQ 4bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 39.8b LLM, VRAM: 27.6GB, Context: 256K, License: apache-2.0, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.34.

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Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/flint-OptiQ-4bit

Flint OptiQ 4bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Flint OptiQ 4bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/flint-OptiQ-4bit
Base Model(s)	Flint RecursiveSI/flint
Model Size	39.8b
Required VRAM	27.6 GB
Updated	2026-10-27
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	flint
Model Files	5.2 GB: 1-of-6 5.4 GB: 2-of-6 5.3 GB: 3-of-6 5.3 GB: 4-of-6 5.3 GB: 5-of-6 1.1 GB: 6-of-6
Quantization Type	4bit
Model Architecture	FlintForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	262144
Model Max Length	262144
Transformers Version	5.12.1
Tokenizer Class	TokenizersBackend
Vocabulary Size	150144
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Best Alternatives to Flint OptiQ 4bit

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Flint Mixed 3 4bit	256K / 17.9 GB	1609	3
Flint MLX Serve 4bit	256K / 22.5 GB	1950	2
Flint MLX Serve Mixed 4 8bit	256K / 23.4 GB	1230	3
Flint OQ2e Fp16	256K / 13.9 GB	329	2
Flint OQ6e Fp16	256K / 32.7 GB	336	1
Flint OQ4e Fp16	256K / 23.3 GB	335	1
Flint Mixed 3 4bit	256K / 17.9 GB	193	1
Flint	256K / 80 GB	4795	754
Flint OQ5e	256K / 28.2 GB	378	1
Flint OQ4e	256K / 23.3 GB	331	1

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