8-bit Open on Hugging Face
Parameters
853M
Weights (est.)
≈ 1.0 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-vlm on an Apple silicon Mac:
pip install mlx-vlmpython -m mlx_vlm.generate --model mlx-community/Qwen3.5-0.8B-8bit --image photo.jpg --prompt "Describe this image"
Details
- Base model
- Qwen/Qwen3.5-0.8B-Base (quantized)
- Vendor
- Qwen
- Task
- Vision + text
- Quantisation
- 8-bit
- Licence
- apache-2.0
- Downloads
- 7.3K in the last 30 days · 84K all time · 2 likes
- Published
- 2026-03-02 · updated 2026-03-02 (8mo ago)
- Tags
- qwen3_5
Other MLX builds of Qwen/Qwen3.5-0.8B-Base
| Build | Quantisation | Weights | Mac memory | Downloads |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.5-0.8B-4bit | 4-bit | ≈ 625 MB | 8 GB+ | 60K |
| Qwen3.5-0.8B-5bit | 5-bit | ≈ 719 MB | 8 GB+ | 584 |
| Qwen3.5-0.8B-6bit | 6-bit | ≈ 813 MB | 8 GB+ | 349 |
| Qwen3.5-0.8B-8bit (this one) | 8-bit | ≈ 1.0 GB | 8 GB+ | 7.3K |
| Qwen3.5-0.8B-bf16 | bf16 | ≈ 1.7 GB | 8 GB+ | 1.9K |