4-bit Open on Hugging Face
Parameters
27B
Weights (est.)
≈ 16.1 GB
Mac memory (est.)
24 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/Qwen3.5-27B-OptiQ-4bit --prompt "Hello"
Details
- Base model
- Qwen/Qwen3.5-27B (quantized)
- Vendor
- Qwen
- Task
- Text generation
- Quantisation
- 4-bit
- Licence
- apache-2.0
- Downloads
- 449 in the last 30 days · 52K all time · 3 likes
- Published
- 2026-04-25 · updated 2026-10-30 (12d ago)
- Tags
- qwen3_5, quantized, mixed-precision, 4bit, 8bit, optiq, apple-silicon, qwen3.5
Other MLX builds of Qwen/Qwen3.5-27B
| Build | Quantisation | Weights | Mac memory | Downloads |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| XORTRON.CriminalComputing.2026.27B.Instruct.NEXT-4.5bit-msq | 5-bit | ≈ 4.5 GB | 8 GB+ | 18 |
| Qwen3.5-27B-OptiQ-4bit (this one) | 4-bit | ≈ 16.1 GB | 24 GB+ | 449 |
| Qwen3.5-27B-mxfp8 | MXFP8 | ≈ 29.5 GB | 48 GB+ | 772 |