MLX Community · First MLX build 2 Mar 2026

Qwen3.5-4B

MLX

A 4.5B parameter model, with 15 MLX builds, from 3-bit to bf16.

Hugging Face
Parameters
4.5B
From Hugging Face
Quantisation
4-bit
Qwen3.5-4B-4bit
Memory needed
4 GB
Estimate, unified memory
Download
1.2 GB
Weights, estimated
Downloads
41K
This build, last 30 days
Task
—
MLX builds
15
On mlx-community
Devices
Mac
Apple silicon

Memory

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 · Hugging Face CLI
$ pip install -U huggingface_hub
$ hf download mlx-community/Qwen3.5-4B-4bit

MLX builds

15 on mlx-community
Click a column to sort. Smallest size and most downloads are highlighted.
Qwen3.5-4B-3bit 3-bit 1.1 GB 4 GB 249
Qwen3.5-4B-mxfp4 MXFP4 1.1 GB 4 GB 187
Qwen3.5-4B-mixed_2_6 4-bit 1.2 GB 4 GB 143
Qwen3.5-4B-mixed_3_4 4-bit 1.2 GB 4 GB 101
Qwen3.5-4B-mixed_3_5 4-bit 1.2 GB 4 GB 28
Qwen3.5-4B-mixed_3_6 4-bit 1.2 GB 4 GB 150
Qwen3.5-4B-4bit 4-bit 1.2 GB 4 GB 41K
Qwen3.5-4B-mixed_3_8 4-bit 1.2 GB 4 GB 23
Qwen3.5-4B-nvfp4 4-bit 1.3 GB 4 GB 1.6K
Qwen3.5-4B-mixed_4_6 4-bit 1.3 GB 4 GB 142
Qwen3.5-4B-mixed_4_8 4-bit 1.3 GB 4 GB 185
Qwen3.5-4B-6bit 6-bit 1.6 GB 4 GB 2.1K
Qwen3.5-4B-mxfp8 MXFP8 1.9 GB 5 GB 891
Qwen3.5-4B-8bit 8-bit 2.0 GB 5 GB 945
Qwen3.5-4B-bf16 bf16 9.1 GB 13 GB 2.7K

Sizes are estimated from Hugging Face’s parameter counts and the quantisation. Downloads are for the last 30 days.