Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct vs Ternary-Bonsai-27B-mlx-2bit

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 6 August 2026.

meta-llama · A
Params
1.2 B
Context
30d
10.4 M
llama3.2 licence · conditional
prism-ml · B
Params
2.6 B
Context
30d
453 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct Ternary-Bonsai-27B-mlx-2bit
Parameters 1.2 B 2.6 B
Architecture LlamaForCausalLM Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration
Context length
Licence llama3.2 apache-2.0
Commercial use Conditional Allowed
Languages 8
Downloads 30d 10,412,058 452,728
Downloads all time 92.8 M 453 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated Yes — accept licence No
First seen on the Hub 2024-09-18 2026-07-04

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 10 days (28 Jul – 6 Aug)

10.4 M197 K
Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct Ternary-Bonsai-27B-mlx-2bit

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct · fp16 3.4 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Ternary-Bonsai-27B-mlx-2bit · fp16 10.2 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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