IQuestLab · First MLX build 2 Jan 2026
IQuest-Coder-V1-40B-Loop-Instruct
MLX
Text iquestcoder
A 40B parameter text generation model from IQuestLab, with 3 MLX builds, from 4-bit to 8-bit.
- Parameters
- 40B From Hugging Face
- Quantisation
- 4-bit IQuest-Coder-V1-40B-Loop-Instruct-4bit
- Memory needed
- 28 GB Estimate, unified memory
- Download
- 22.4 GB Weights, estimated
- Downloads
- 178 This build, last 30 days
- Task
- Text generation Text
- MLX builds
- 3 On mlx-community
- Devices
- Mac Apple silicon
Memory
Will it fit?Needs about 28 GB at 4-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-Loop-Instruct-4bit --prompt "Hello"MLX builds
3 on mlx-community| IQuest-Coder-V1-40B-Loop-Instruct-4bit | 4-bit | 22.4 GB | 28 GB | 178 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IQuest-Coder-V1-40B-Loop-Instruct-6bit | 6-bit | 32.3 GB | 39 GB | 47 |
| IQuest-Coder-V1-40B-Loop-Instruct-8bit | 8-bit | 42.3 GB | 50 GB | 37 |
Sizes are estimated from Hugging Face’s parameter counts and the quantisation. Downloads are for the last 30 days.