What are the hardware requirements for Bonsai 8B Mlx 1bit?

Bonsai 8B Mlx 1bit requires approximately 1.3 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 64K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Bonsai 8B Mlx 1bit and how large is it?

Bonsai 8B Mlx 1bit is developed by prism-ml, a model with 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 Bonsai 8B Mlx 1bit?

Bonsai 8B Mlx 1bit is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Bonsai 8B Mlx 1bit by prism-ml — VRAM 1.3GB, 64K context

Name: Bonsai 8B Mlx 1bit
Author: prism-ml

Bonsai 8B Mlx 1bit is an open-source language model by prism-ml. Features: 8b LLM, VRAM: 1.3GB, Context: 64K, License: apache-2.0, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.32.

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Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/prism-ml/Bonsai-8B-mlx-1bit

Bonsai 8B Mlx 1bit Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Bonsai 8B Mlx 1bit
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/prism-ml/Bonsai-8B-mlx-1bit
Base Model(s)	Bonsai 8B Unpacked prism-ml/Bonsai-8B-unpacked
Model Size	8b
Required VRAM	1.3 GB
Updated	2026-06-22
Maintainer	prism-ml
Model Type	qwen3
Model Files	1.3 GB
Quantization Type	1bit
Model Architecture	Qwen3ForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	65536
Model Max Length	65536
Transformers Version	4.57.6
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	151669
Errors	replace

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Quantized Models of the Bonsai 8B Mlx 1bit

Model	Likes	Downloads	VRAM
Bonsai 8B MLX Q2.25	4	145	2 GB
Bonsai 8B MLX 2.25bit	4	142	2 GB

Best Alternatives to Bonsai 8B Mlx 1bit

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BehChat SFTv3 Ckpt1	128K / 16.4 GB	6	0
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DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B 4bit	128K / 4.6 GB	1781	6
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Qwen3 8B LQA 14e Full	128K / 16.4 GB	6	0
...Seek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B 4bit DWQ	128K / 4.6 GB	212	8
...0528 Qwen3 8B Unsloth Bnb 4bit	128K / 16.4 GB	7	0
Annie Lite V0.2.9 Qwen3 8B	80K / 16.4 GB	5	0
Bonsai 8B MLX Q2.25	64K / 2.3 GB	145	4