Qwen3-0.6B vs Bonsai-27B-mlx-1bit

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 September 2026.

Qwen · A
Params
750 M
Context
40,960
30d
23.7 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
prism-ml · B
Params
1.7 B
Context
30d
1.1 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen3-0.6B Bonsai-27B-mlx-1bit
Parameters 750 M 1.7 B
Architecture Qwen3ForCausalLM Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration
Context length 40,960
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages
Downloads 30d 23,745,227 1,072,514
Downloads all time 218.8 M 2.9 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-04-27 2026-07-04

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 56 days (28 Jul – 21 Sep)

30.1 M204 K
Qwen3-0.6B Bonsai-27B-mlx-1bit

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-0.6B · fp16 2.3 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Bonsai-27B-mlx-1bit · fp16 6.4 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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