IQuestLab · First MLX build 1 Jan 2026
IQuest-Coder-V1-40B-Instruct
MLX
Text iquestcoder
A 40B parameter text generation model from IQuestLab, with 4 MLX builds, from 4-bit to 8-bit.
- Parameters
- 40B From Hugging Face
- Quantisation
- 8-bit IQuest-Coder-V1-40B-Instruct-8bit
- Memory needed
- 50 GB Estimate, unified memory
- Download
- 42.3 GB Weights, estimated
- Downloads
- 61 This build, last 30 days
- Task
- Text generation Text
- MLX builds
- 4 On mlx-community
- Devices
- Mac Apple silicon
Memory
Will it fit?Needs about 50 GB at 8-bit
8 GB
16 GB
24 GB
32 GB
64 GB
128 GB
Fits with headroomTight, close other appsWon’t fit
Estimated from the size of the weights, plus a fifth for context and working memory and 2 GB for macOS and your apps. Long contexts need more.
Run it
Terminal · mlx-lm$ pip install -U mlx-lm
$ mlx_lm.generate --model mlx-community/IQuest-Coder-V1-40B-Instruct-8bit --prompt "Hello"MLX builds
4 on mlx-community| IQuest-Coder-V1-40B-Instruct-4bit | 4-bit | 22.4 GB | 28 GB | 53 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IQuest-Coder-V1-40B-Instruct-5bit | 5-bit | 27.4 GB | 33 GB | 31 |
| IQuest-Coder-V1-40B-Instruct-6bit | 6-bit | 32.3 GB | 39 GB | 35 |
| IQuest-Coder-V1-40B-Instruct-8bit | 8-bit | 42.3 GB | 50 GB | 61 |
Sizes are estimated from Hugging Face’s parameter counts and the quantisation. Downloads are for the last 30 days.