4-bit Open on Hugging Face
Parameters
9.4B
Weights (est.)
≈ 6.0 GB
Mac memory (est.)
16 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/Qwen3.5-9B-MLX-4bit --image photo.jpg --prompt "Describe this image"
Details
- Base model
- Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B (quantized) · Qwen3.5 9B on the radar →
- Vendor
- Qwen
- Task
- Vision + text
- Quantisation
- 4-bit
- Licence
- apache-2.0
- Downloads
- 27K in the last 30 days · 395K all time · 191 likes
- Published
- 2026-03-02 · updated 2026-03-23 (7mo ago)
- Tags
- qwen3_5, qwen3.5, vision-language-model, quantized, 4bit
Other MLX builds of Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B
| Build | Quantisation | Weights | Mac memory | Downloads |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.5-9B-MTP-4bit | 4-bit | ≈ 137 MB | 8 GB+ | 1.0K |
| Qwen3.5-9B-MTP-5bit | 5-bit | ≈ 167 MB | 8 GB+ | 128 |
| Qwen3.5-9B-MTP-bf16 | bf16 | ≈ 487 MB | 8 GB+ | 140 |
| Ternary-Bonsai-2-9B-2bit | 2-bit | ≈ 3.7 GB | 8 GB+ | 897 |
| Qwen3.5-9B-MLX-4bit (this one) | 4-bit | ≈ 6.0 GB | 16 GB+ | 27K |
| Qwen3.5-9B-OptiQ-4bit | 4-bit | ≈ 6.0 GB | 16 GB+ | 6.5K |
| Qwen3.5-9B-MLX-8bit | 8-bit | ≈ 10.4 GB | 16 GB+ | 1.4K |
| Qwen3.5-9B-MLX-bf16 | bf16 | ≈ 18.8 GB | 24 GB+ | 136 |