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gpt-oss-20b-MXFP4-Q8

mlx-community/gpt-oss-20b-MXFP4-Q8
MXFP4 Open on Hugging Face
Parameters
21B
Weights (est.)
≈ 11.8 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-lm on an Apple silicon Mac:

pip install mlx-lmmlx_lm.generate --model mlx-community/gpt-oss-20b-MXFP4-Q8 --prompt "Hello"

Details

Base model
openai/gpt-oss-20b (quantized) · gpt oss 20b on the radar →
Vendor
OpenAI · gpt-oss
Task
Text generation
Quantisation
MXFP4
Licence
apache-2.0
Downloads
173K in the last 30 days · 7.9M all time · 101 likes
Published
2025-08-29 · updated 2026-03-19 (7mo ago)
Tags
gpt_oss, vllm

Other MLX builds of openai/gpt-oss-20b

Build Quantisation Weights Mac memory Downloads
gpt-oss-20b-MXFP4-Q8 (this one) MXFP4 ≈ 11.8 GB 16 GB+ 173K
gpt-oss-20b-MXFP4-Q4 MXFP4 ≈ 11.8 GB 16 GB+ 2.3K
gpt-oss-20b-OptiQ-4bit 4-bit ≈ 11.8 GB 16 GB+ 1.8K
gpt-oss-20b-mxfp4-bf16 MXFP4 ≈ 14.4 GB 24 GB+ 442