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Jan-v3-4B-base-instruct-8bit

mlx-community/Jan-v3-4B-base-instruct-8bit
8-bit Open on Hugging Face
Parameters
4.0B
Weights (est.)
≈ 4.3 GB
Mac memory (est.)
8 GB+

Size is estimated from the parameter count and quantisation. Memory allows a fifth extra for context plus 2 GB for the system; long contexts need more.

Run it

With mlx-lm on an Apple silicon Mac:

pip install mlx-lmmlx_lm.generate --model mlx-community/Jan-v3-4B-base-instruct-8bit --prompt "Hello"

Details

Base model
janhq/Jan-v3-4B-base-instruct (quantized)
Vendor
janhq
Task
Text generation
Quantisation
8-bit
Licence
apache-2.0
Downloads
57 in the last 30 days · 709 all time · 3 likes
Published
2026-01-27 · updated 2026-01-27 (9mo ago)
Languages
en
Tags
qwen3, code

Other MLX builds of janhq/Jan-v3-4B-base-instruct

Build Quantisation Weights Mac memory Downloads
Jan-v3-4B-base-instruct-4bit 4-bit ≈ 2.3 GB 8 GB+ 716
Jan-v3-4B-base-instruct-6bit 6-bit ≈ 3.3 GB 8 GB+ 40
Jan-v3-4B-base-instruct-8bit (this one) 8-bit ≈ 4.3 GB 8 GB+ 57