4-bit Open on Hugging Face
Parameters
243M
Weights (est.)
≈ 137 MB
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/Qwen3.5-9B-MTP-4bit --prompt "Hello"
Details
- Base model
- Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B (quantized) · Qwen3.5 9B on the radar →
- Vendor
- Qwen
- Task
- Text generation
- Quantisation
- 4-bit
- Licence
- apache-2.0
- Downloads
- 1.0K in the last 30 days · 6.5K all time · 4 likes
- Published
- 2026-06-01 · updated 2026-06-01 (5mo ago)
- Languages
- en
- Tags
- qwen3_5_mtp, mlx-vlm, qwen3.5, qwen3.5-9b, qwen, speculative-decoding, draft-model
Other MLX builds of Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B
| Build | Quantisation | Weights | Mac memory | Downloads |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.5-9B-MTP-4bit (this one) | 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 | 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 |