NousResearch · First MLX build 26 Aug 2025
Hermes-4-70B
MLX
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A 71B parameter text generation model from NousResearch, with 4 MLX builds, from 4-bit to 8-bit.
- Parameters
- 71B From Hugging Face
- Quantisation
- 4-bit Hermes-4-70B-4bit
- Memory needed
- 47 GB Estimate, unified memory
- Download
- 39.7 GB Weights, estimated
- Downloads
- 127 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 47 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/Hermes-4-70B-4bit --prompt "Hello"MLX builds
4 on mlx-community| Hermes-4-70B-4bit | 4-bit | 39.7 GB | 47 GB | 127 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hermes-4-70B-5bit | 5-bit | 48.5 GB | 57 GB | 78 |
| Hermes-4-70B-6bit | 6-bit | 57.3 GB | 67 GB | 43 |
| Hermes-4-70B-8bit | 8-bit | 75.0 GB | 86 GB | 109 |
Sizes are estimated from Hugging Face’s parameter counts and the quantisation. Downloads are for the last 30 days.