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

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 3 September 2026.

prism-ml · A · Open weights
Params
2.6 B
Context
—
30d
1.0 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
meta-llama · B · Open weights
Params
1.2 B
Context
—
30d
477 K
llama3.2 licence · conditional

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Ternary-Bonsai-27B-mlx-2bit Llama-3.2-1B
Parameters 2.6 B 1.2 B
Architecture Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration LlamaForCausalLM
Context length — —
Licence apache-2.0 llama3.2
Commercial use Allowed Conditional
Languages — 8
Downloads 30d 1,012,597 477,238
Downloads all time 4.7 M 60.2 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No Yes — accept licence
First seen on the Hub 2026-07-04 2024-09-18

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

2.1 M432 K
Ternary-Bonsai-27B-mlx-2bit Llama-3.2-1B A overtook B on 15 Sep

VRAM side by side

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

Llama-3.2-1B · 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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