What are the hardware requirements for Stable Code 3B 4bit?

Stable Code 3B 4bit requires approximately 1.8 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 16K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Stable Code 3B 4bit and how large is it?

Stable Code 3B 4bit 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 Stable Code 3B 4bit?

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

Stable Code 3B 4bit by mlx-community — VRAM 1.8GB, 16K context

Name: Stable Code 3B 4bit
Author: mlx-community

Stable Code 3B 4bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 3b LLM, VRAM: 1.8GB, Context: 16K, License: other, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.11.

4bit Code Dataset:bigcode/commitpackft Dataset:bigcode/starcoderdata Dataset:bigcode/the-stack-gith... Dataset:eleutherai/proof-pile-... Dataset:meta-math/metamathqa Dataset:tiiuae/falcon-refinedw... En Endpoints compatible Mlx Model-index Quantized Region:us Safetensors Stablelm

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/stable-code-3b-4bit

Stable Code 3B 4bit Parameters and Internals

Model Type

causal-lm, code

Additional Notes

This model was converted to MLX format, refer to the original model card for more details.

Supported Languages

en (high)

LLM Name	Stable Code 3B 4bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/stable-code-3b-4bit
Model Size	3b
Required VRAM	1.8 GB
Updated	2026-08-07
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	stablelm
Model Files	1.8 GB
Supported Languages	en
Quantization Type	4bit
Model Architecture	StableLmForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	16384
Model Max Length	16384
Transformers Version	4.38.2
Vocabulary Size	50304
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Stable Code Instruct 3B 4bit	16K / 1.8 GB	52	5
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Stable Cypher Instruct 3B	16K / 1.7 GB	263	26
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Stable Code Instruct 3B AWQ	16K / 1.8 GB	6	0

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