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gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-OptiQ-4bit

mlx-community/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-OptiQ-4bit
4-bit Open on Hugging Face
Parameters
25B
Weights (est.)
≈ 15.3 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/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-OptiQ-4bit --prompt "Hello"

Details

Base model
google/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it (quantized)
Vendor
Google · Gemma
Task
Text generation
Quantisation
4-bit
Licence
gemma
Downloads
1.2K in the last 30 days · 32K all time · 21 likes
Published
2026-04-25 · updated 2026-10-18 (24d ago)
Tags
gemma4, quantized, mixed-precision, 4bit, 8bit, optiq, apple-silicon, gemma-4

Other MLX builds of google/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it

Build Quantisation Weights Mac memory Downloads
gemma-4-26b-a4b-it-4bit 4-bit ≈ 15.3 GB 24 GB+ 17K
gemma-4-26b-a4b-it-nvfp4 4-bit ≈ 15.3 GB 24 GB+ 371
gemma-4-26b-a4b-it-mxfp4 MXFP4 ≈ 15.3 GB 24 GB+ 203
gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-OptiQ-4bit (this one) 4-bit ≈ 15.3 GB 24 GB+ 1.2K
gemma-4-26b-a4b-it-5bit 5-bit ≈ 18.5 GB 24 GB+ 509
gemma-4-26b-a4b-it-6bit 6-bit ≈ 21.6 GB 32 GB+ 541
gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-heretic-msq-2.6bit 6-bit ≈ 21.7 GB 32 GB+ 392
gemma-4-26b-a4b-it-8bit 8-bit ≈ 28.0 GB 48 GB+ 3.7K
gemma-4-26b-a4b-it-mxfp8 MXFP8 ≈ 28.0 GB 48 GB+ 135
gemma-4-26b-a4b-it-bf16 bf16 ≈ 51.6 GB 64 GB+ 430