Qwen3.6-27B vs Qwen3.6-27B-MLX-4bit

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 28 July 2026.

Qwen · A
Params
27.8 B
Context
30d
7.0 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
lmstudio-community · B
Params
4.7 B
Context
30d
942 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

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Specification Qwen3.6-27B Qwen3.6-27B-MLX-4bit
Parameters 27.8 B 4.7 B
Architecture Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration
Context length
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages
Downloads 30d 6,984,872 941,881
Downloads all time 19.6 M 2.3 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-04-21 2026-04-22

Download trend

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

7.0 M942 K
Qwen3.6-27B Qwen3.6-27B-MLX-4bit

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3.6-27B-MLX-4bit · fp16 18.9 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen3.6-27B · fp16 65.8 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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