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Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-OptiQ-4bit

mlx-community/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-OptiQ-4bit
4-bit Open on Hugging Face
Parameters
35B
Weights (est.)
≈ 20.4 GB
Mac memory (est.)
32 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/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-OptiQ-4bit --prompt "Hello"

Details

Base model
Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B (quantized) · Qwen3.6 35B A3B on the radar →
Vendor
Qwen
Task
Text generation
Quantisation
4-bit
Licence
apache-2.0
Downloads
3.6K in the last 30 days · 59K all time · 82 likes
Published
2026-04-26 · updated 2026-11-05 (6d ago)
Tags
qwen3_5_moe, quantized, mixed-precision, 4bit, 8bit, optiq, apple-silicon, qwen3.6

Other MLX builds of Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

Build Quantisation Weights Mac memory Downloads
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-MTP-4bit 4-bit ≈ 475 MB 8 GB+ 1.3K
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-MTP-5bit 5-bit ≈ 581 MB 8 GB+ 278
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-MTP-bf16 bf16 ≈ 1.7 GB 8 GB+ 203
Huihui-Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-abliterated-4.4bit-msq 4-bit ≈ 5.1 GB 8 GB+ 282
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-4bit 4-bit ≈ 20.4 GB 32 GB+ 38K
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-OptiQ-4bit (this one) 4-bit ≈ 20.4 GB 32 GB+ 3.6K
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-nvfp4 4-bit ≈ 20.4 GB 32 GB+ 1.9K
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-mxfp4 MXFP4 ≈ 20.4 GB 32 GB+ 261
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-5bit 5-bit ≈ 24.7 GB 32 GB+ 3.3K
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-6bit 6-bit ≈ 29.1 GB 48 GB+ 2.6K
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-8bit 8-bit ≈ 37.7 GB 48 GB+ 5.6K
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-mxfp8 MXFP8 ≈ 37.7 GB 48 GB+ 1.6K
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-bf16 bf16 ≈ 70.2 GB 96 GB+ 2.7K