What are the hardware requirements for Flint Mixed 3 4bit?

Flint Mixed 3 4bit requires approximately 17.9 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 Mixed 3 4bit and how large is it?

Flint Mixed 3 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 Mixed 3 4bit?

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

Flint Mixed 3 4bit by mlx-community — VRAM 17.9GB, 256K context

Name: Flint Mixed 3 4bit
Author: mlx-community

Flint Mixed 3 4bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 39.8b LLM, VRAM: 17.9GB, Context: 256K, License: apache-2.0, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.35.

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Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/flint-mixed-3-4bit

Flint Mixed 3 4bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Flint Mixed 3 4bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/flint-mixed-3-4bit
Base Model(s)	Flint Int4 RecursiveSI/flint-int4
Model Size	39.8b
Required VRAM	17.9 GB
Updated	2026-10-26
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	flint
Model Files	5.3 GB: 1-of-4 5.4 GB: 2-of-4 5.3 GB: 3-of-4 1.9 GB: 4-of-4
Quantization Type	4bit
Model Architecture	FlintForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	262144
Model Max Length	262144
Tokenizer Class	PreTrainedTokenizerFast
Vocabulary Size	150144
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Best Alternatives to Flint Mixed 3 4bit

Best Alternatives	Context / RAM	Downloads	Likes
Flint MLX Serve 4bit	256K / 22.5 GB	1950	2
Flint MLX Serve Mixed 4 8bit	256K / 23.4 GB	1230	3
Flint Mixed 3 4bit	256K / 17.9 GB	193	1
Flint	256K / 80 GB	4795	754
Flint AWQ	256K / 0.9 GB	88	1
Flint FP8 BF16	256K / 0.8 GB	46	1

Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than mlx-community/flint-mixed-3-4bit.