What are the hardware requirements for LightOnOCR 3 0.8B MLX?

LightOnOCR 3 0.8B MLX requires approximately 1.7 GB of VRAM. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed LightOnOCR 3 0.8B MLX and how large is it?

LightOnOCR 3 0.8B MLX is developed by prithivMLmods, a model with 0.8b 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 LightOnOCR 3 0.8B MLX?

LightOnOCR 3 0.8B MLX is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

LightOnOCR 3 0.8B MLX by prithivMLmods — VRAM 1.7GB

Name: LightOnOCR 3 0.8B MLX
Author: prithivMLmods

LightOnOCR 3 0.8B MLX is an open-source language model by prithivMLmods. Features: 0.8b LLM, VRAM: 1.7GB, License: apache-2.0, LLM Explorer Score: 0.29.

4-bit 8-bit Apple-silicon Base model:lightonai/lightonoc... Base model:quantized:lightonai... Conversational Document-understanding En Forms Image-text-to-text Mlx Mlx-vlm Ocr Pdf Qwen3 5 Region:us Safetensors Tables Vision Vision-language Visual-grounding

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/prithivMLmods/LightOnOCR-3-0.8B-MLX

LightOnOCR 3 0.8B MLX Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	LightOnOCR 3 0.8B MLX
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/prithivMLmods/LightOnOCR-3-0.8B-MLX
Base Model(s)	lightonai/LightOnOCR-3-0.8B lightonai/LightOnOCR-3-0.8B
Model Size	0.8b
Required VRAM	1.7 GB
Updated	2026-10-12
Maintainer	prithivMLmods
Model Type	qwen3_5
Model Files	1.7 GB
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration
License	apache-2.0
Model Max Length	262144
Transformers Version	5.5.4
Tokenizer Class	Qwen3_5Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Errors	replace

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Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than prithivMLmods/LightOnOCR-3-0.8B-MLX.