What are the hardware requirements for Qwen3 4B GGUF?

Qwen3 4B GGUF requires approximately 1.7 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 40K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Qwen3 4B GGUF and how large is it?

Qwen3 4B GGUF is developed by second-state, 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 Qwen3 4B GGUF?

Qwen3 4B GGUF is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Qwen3 4B GGUF by second-state — VRAM 1.7GB, 40K context

Name: Qwen3 4B GGUF
Author: second-state

Qwen3 4B GGUF is an open-source language model by second-state. Features: 4b LLM, VRAM: 1.7GB, Context: 40K, License: other, Quantized, LLM Explorer Score: 0.18.

Base model:quantized:qwen/qwen... Base model:qwen/qwen3-4b Chat Conversational En Endpoints compatible Gguf Q2 Quantized Qwen3 Region:us

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/second-state/Qwen3-4B-GGUF

Qwen3 4B GGUF Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Qwen3 4B GGUF
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/second-state/Qwen3-4B-GGUF
Model Name	Qwen3-4B
Model Creator	Qwen
Base Model(s)	Qwen/Qwen3-4B Qwen/Qwen3-4B
Model Size	4b
Required VRAM	1.7 GB
Updated	2026-05-30
Maintainer	second-state
Model Type	qwen3
Model Files	1.7 GB 2.2 GB 2.1 GB 1.9 GB 2.4 GB 2.5 GB 2.4 GB 2.8 GB 2.9 GB 2.8 GB 3.3 GB 4.3 GB 8.1 GB
Supported Languages	en
GGUF Quantization	Yes
Quantization Type	gguf\|q2\|q4_k\|q5_k
Model Architecture	Qwen3ForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	40960
Model Max Length	40960
Transformers Version	4.51.0
Vocabulary Size	151936
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than second-state/Qwen3-4B-GGUF.