What are the hardware requirements for Mini Coder 4B OptiQ 4bit?

Mini Coder 4B OptiQ 4bit requires approximately 3 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 Mini Coder 4B OptiQ 4bit and how large is it?

Mini Coder 4B OptiQ 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 Mini Coder 4B OptiQ 4bit?

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

Mini Coder 4B OptiQ 4bit by mlx-community — VRAM 3GB, 256K context

Name: Mini Coder 4B OptiQ 4bit
Author: mlx-community

Mini Coder 4B OptiQ 4bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 4b LLM, VRAM: 3GB, Context: 256K, License: mit, Quantized, Code Generating, LLM Explorer Score: 0.27.

4-bit 4bit 8bit Agent Apple-silicon Base model:quantized:ricdomolm... Base model:ricdomolm/mini-code... Code Codegen Conversational Mixed-precision Mlx Optiq Quantized Qwen3 Region:us Safetensors

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

Mini Coder 4B OptiQ 4bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Mini Coder 4B OptiQ 4bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/mini-coder-4b-OptiQ-4bit
Base Model(s)	Mini Coder 4B ricdomolm/mini-coder-4b
Model Size	4b
Required VRAM	3 GB
Updated	2026-08-10
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	qwen3
Model Files	3.0 GB
Quantization Type	4bit
Generates Code	Yes
Model Architecture	Qwen3ForCausalLM
License	mit
Context Length	262144
Model Max Length	262144
Transformers Version	4.56.1
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	151936
Errors	replace

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