What are the hardware requirements for Stablelm 2 Zephyr 1 6B 4bit?

Stablelm 2 Zephyr 1 6B 4bit requires approximately 1.2 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 4K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Stablelm 2 Zephyr 1 6B 4bit and how large is it?

Stablelm 2 Zephyr 1 6B 4bit is developed by mlx-community, a model with 6b 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 Stablelm 2 Zephyr 1 6B 4bit?

Stablelm 2 Zephyr 1 6B 4bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Stablelm 2 Zephyr 1 6B 4bit by mlx-community — VRAM 1.2GB, 4K context

Name: Stablelm 2 Zephyr 1 6B 4bit
Author: mlx-community

Stablelm 2 Zephyr 1 6B 4bit is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 6b LLM, VRAM: 1.2GB, Context: 4K, License: other, Quantized, Instruction-Based, LLM Explorer Score: 0.11.

4bit Dataset:allenai/ultrafeedback ... Dataset:hkust-nlp/deita-10k-v0 Dataset:huggingfaceh4/ultracha... Dataset:intel/orca dpo pairs Dataset:ldjnr/capybara Dataset:meta-math/metamathqa Dataset:openchat/openchat shar... Dataset:wizardlm/wizardlm evol... En Instruct Mlx Quantized Region:us Safetensors Stablelm

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/stablelm-2-zephyr-1_6b-4bit

Stablelm 2 Zephyr 1 6B 4bit Parameters and Internals

Model Type

causal-lm, mlx

Additional Notes

This model was converted to MLX format from `stabilityai/stablelm-2-zephyr-1_6b`.

LLM Name	Stablelm 2 Zephyr 1 6b 4bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/stablelm-2-zephyr-1_6b-4bit
Base Model(s)	Stablelm 2 Zephyr 1 6b Xenova/stablelm-2-zephyr-1_6b
Model Size	6b
Required VRAM	1.2 GB
Updated	2026-07-14
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	stablelm
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	1.2 GB
Supported Languages	en
Quantization Type	4bit
Model Architecture	StableLmForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	4096
Model Max Length	4096
Transformers Version	4.38.2
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	100352
Torch Data Type	float16

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