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granite-4.1-30b-6bit

mlx-community/granite-4.1-30b-6bit
6-bit Open on Hugging Face
Parameters
29B
Weights (est.)
≈ 23.5 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/granite-4.1-30b-6bit --prompt "Hello"

Details

Base model
ibm-granite/granite-4.1-30b (quantized)
Vendor
IBM · Granite
Task
Text generation
Quantisation
6-bit
Licence
apache-2.0
Downloads
24 in the last 30 days · 397 all time · 1 likes
Published
2026-05-01 · updated 2026-05-01 (6mo ago)
Tags
granite, language, granite-4.0

Other MLX builds of ibm-granite/granite-4.1-30b

Build Quantisation Weights Mac memory Downloads
granite-4.1-30b-4bit 4-bit ≈ 16.2 GB 24 GB+ 675
granite-4.1-30b-nvfp4 4-bit ≈ 16.2 GB 24 GB+ 47
granite-4.1-30b-mxfp4 MXFP4 ≈ 16.2 GB 24 GB+ 39
granite-4.1-30b-5bit 5-bit ≈ 19.8 GB 32 GB+ 23
granite-4.1-30b-6bit (this one) 6-bit ≈ 23.5 GB 32 GB+ 24
granite-4.1-30b-mxfp8 MXFP8 ≈ 30.7 GB 48 GB+ 69
granite-4.1-30b-8bit 8-bit ≈ 30.7 GB 48 GB+ 48
granite-4.1-30b-bf16 bf16 ≈ 57.7 GB 96 GB+ 38