Ternary-Bonsai-27B-mlx-2bit vs Qwen3-4B-Base

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 13 September 2026.

prism-ml · A · Open weights
Params
2.6 B
Context
—
30d
1.0 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Qwen · B · Open weights
Params
4.0 B
Context
32,768
30d
447 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Ternary-Bonsai-27B-mlx-2bit Qwen3-4B-Base
Parameters 2.6 B 4.0 B
Architecture Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration Qwen3ForCausalLM
Context length — 32,768
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 1,012,597 446,856
Downloads all time 4.7 M 23.4 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-07-04 2025-04-28

Download trend

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

2.1 M418 K
Ternary-Bonsai-27B-mlx-2bit Qwen3-4B-Base A overtook B on 29 Sep

VRAM side by side

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

Qwen3-4B-Base · fp16 10.0 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably
Ternary-Bonsai-27B-mlx-2bit · fp16 10.2 GB / 24 GB
✅ Runs comfortably

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