alt.freeweights.qwen / Qwen3.8-27B-4bit
From: mlx-community <huggingface.co/mlx-community>Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.qwenSubject:

Qwen3.8-27B-4bit

Date: 2026-11-14Commit: b935172Signed: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓

Image text to text model with 27.4B parameters. Safetensors weights, 16.1 GB in all. Published by mlx-community under Apache-2.0.

27.4B params16.1GBQwen3.8-27B-4bitsafetensorspermissive
FactsParams27.4BSize16.1 GBFormatssafetensorsTaskimage text to textLicenseApache-2.0From sourcepermissive
$ fw get mlx-community/Qwen3.8-27B-4bit
# manifest sha256 3d1f2cec13f6… · 16.1 GB · 15 files
$ fw verify ./Qwen3.8-27B-4bit mlx-community/Qwen3.8-27B-4bit
From sourceHosted (signed)mlx-community/Qwen3.8-27B-4bitLast check: 2026-11-14 21:30 UTC

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Quantized of Qwen3.8-27B.

Works with

Overview

Size
16.1 GB
Weights
16.1 GB (safetensors)
Parameters
27.4B
Formats
safetensors
Task
image text to text
License
Apache-2.0 (permissive)
Files
15, each with a sha256
Publisher
mlx-community
Added
2026-11-14
Section
alt.freeweights.qwen
Lineage

Original release from the publisher.

Base model: Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B

Where these bytes come from
Publisher at the pinned commit→You

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Sources
BadgeHostLast checkResult
From sourcehuggingface.co2026-11-14 21:30 UTCpassed

Model card

From the publisher at commit b935172. Shown as plain text with links; images open at the publisher.

mlx-community/Qwen3.8-27B-4bit#

This model was converted to MLX format from Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B using mlx-vlm version 0.6.8. Refer to the original model card for more details on the model.

Use with mlx#

pip install -U mlx-vlm
python -m mlx_vlm.generate --model mlx-community/Qwen3.8-27B-4bit --max-tokens 100 --temperature 0.0 --prompt "Describe this image." --image <path_to_image>

Files

15 files · 16.1 GBWeights 16.1 GB (safetensors). Sizes and sha256 from the signed manifest.
Hide all 15 files with their sha256
FileSizesha256
.gitattributes1.57 KB34448b82c17d60fec9b65b1f093c115ddbaadc04beb1b0140b6bfed2e012a930
README.md632 B860ff845b4746d0b3e1d1afa4f13aac691ef49c7165054cedfb199371568c4c2
chat_template.jinja8.95 KBc3cf9e34abf4f9e36c2d72165aa9c132d3e2a725b6c2586aaa3a8af9d7a81041
config.json4.93 KB14b65a0ee06517060a6bbd979bb1a8ff54e7b304b1a1f01d54344b88b8285e85
generation_config.json202 Be70c136c1b78ddc1fb0905bac8e733a4dc448d4f852a5dd75143fffc70be550e
model-00001-of-00003.safetensors5.34 GB6cc1508e96fb5d0865dfd5753a79f4ec60651bf3e2a82844a7e8ae9c60528c0d
model-00002-of-00003.safetensors5.35 GB83f2a20ca8058f486a3634a27faf99587f4cd3c156a83dee34fb99e6ac178670
model-00003-of-00003.safetensors5.36 GB31b8c91ef899f79efaaa69e3d2c096f6e2ebeb2ff20e29222abbd9ebc79e560a
model.safetensors.index.json218 KB13b840162b4cb35c66fef7df072f7dbb4717908204364f5e5d9f9655a2758fa8
preprocessor_config.json390 B27225450ac9c6529872ee1924fcb0962ff5634834f817040f444118116f4e516
processor_config.json991 B222e060084f093738ca7af4c89ef09d844e415876021325fdf7d5c6821b119d4
tokenizer.json12.8 MB0997f410c57a1f4e53b09e4be8f4a172d90edd9564368fb0847030937229b9f3
tokenizer_config.json1.17 KB792fa3f0cb88b111e54ef3134c873531008c4df471d108da17903426e308aa7b
video_preprocessor_config.json385 B7768af27c1fafa9cc9011c1dc20067e03f8915e03b63504550e11d5066986d13
vocab.json6.72 MBce99b4cb2983d118806ce0a8b777a35b093e2000a503ebde25853284c9dfa003
VersionsEach time the pinned upstream commit or file list changed in this repo. Newest first.
Upstream commitDateContents
b935172e4b pinned now manifest updated, same commit2026-11-14 21:30 UTC15 files · 16.1 GB
b935172e4b2026-11-14 21:30 UTC15 files · 16.1 GB

Use it

$ fw get mlx-community/Qwen3.8-27B-4bit
# manifest sha256 3d1f2cec13f6… · 16.1 GB · 15 files
$ fw verify ./Qwen3.8-27B-4bit mlx-community/Qwen3.8-27B-4bit
fw.pyChecks the signature and every sha256, tries each source in order, resumes.
$ python3 fw.py get https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/mlx-community/Qwen3.8-27B-4bit.json --dir ./Qwen3.8-27B-4bit $ python3 fw.py verify ./Qwen3.8-27B-4bit ./mlx-community__Qwen3.8-27B-4bit.json
hfThe Hugging Face CLI with one setting. Same repo id.
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download mlx-community/Qwen3.8-27B-4bit --revision b935172e4bb5dcd0543774a34748fb92422e3027 --local-dir ./Qwen3.8-27B-4bit
transformersLoad the weights in Python.
import os os.environ["HF_ENDPOINT"] = "https://freeweights.allternit.com" from transformers import AutoModelForImageTextToText, AutoProcessor processor = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("mlx-community/Qwen3.8-27B-4bit", revision="b935172e4bb5dcd0543774a34748fb92422e3027") model = AutoModelForImageTextToText.from_pretrained("mlx-community/Qwen3.8-27B-4bit", revision="b935172e4bb5dcd0543774a34748fb92422e3027", device_map="auto")
vLLMServe an OpenAI-compatible API.
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com vllm serve mlx-community/Qwen3.8-27B-4bit --revision b935172e4bb5dcd0543774a34748fb92422e3027

License

Name
Apache License 2.0
Id
Apache-2.0
Class
Permissive
Redistribution
yes
Listing
Hosted (signed)
Decided
License as declared by the publisher. No person read it. 2026-11-14
Text in
README.md
Text sha256
860ff845b4746d0b3e1d1afa4f13aac691ef49c7165054cedfb199371568c4c2
Terms gate
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Provenance

From: mlx-community <huggingface.co/mlx-community>Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.qwenSubject: Qwen3.8-27B-4bitDate: 2026-11-14Commit: b935172Signed: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓
Upstream
mlx-community/Qwen3.8-27B-4bit
Pinned commit
b935172e4bb5dcd0543774a34748fb92422e3027
Manifest
Qwen3.8-27B-4bit.json · .minisig
Manifest sha256
3d1f2cec13f6179d0a1a360fdac9f1ff42ffa82ed2203863ada18f0e427b980d
Signature
minisign, Ed25519, key 2DC28CC7B26A283B
Created
2026-11-14 21:30 UTC
Generator
freeweights-manifest/0.1.0
Takedowns
None.

How to verify

$ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/mlx-community/Qwen3.8-27B-4bit.json $ curl -O https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/mlx-community/Qwen3.8-27B-4bit.json.minisig $ minisign -Vm Qwen3.8-27B-4bit.json -P RWQ7KGqyx4zCLXtUFOqvfv8L3g+8fpKJ1FsuxPyOYMF+4KufbUxKq1Oq $ shasum -a 256 <file> # compare with the Files tab

A manifest whose signature fails must be rejected. A file whose size or sha256 does not match must be discarded. Verify a download

Model tree

Parent

Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B · this model is a quantization of it

No model in the catalog names this one as its parent.

Get it
Download
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download mlx-community/Qwen3.8-27B-4bit
Open in Freeweights Studio

Pull, verify and run it in the Allternit app on Desktop, web or phone.

Signed manifest
minisign, key 2DC28CC7B26A283B. Qwen3.8-27B-4bit.json. Provenance. Takedown history: none.
From: BAAI <huggingface.co/BAAI>Subject: Aquila-VL-2B-llava-qwen
From: Perciqa <huggingface.co/Perciqa>Subject: Aurora-Code-1
From: BAAI <huggingface.co/BAAI>Subject: bge-reasoner-embed-qwen3-8b-0923
From: amazon <huggingface.co/amazon>Subject: BMOJOF-primed-HQwen3-8B-Instruct
From: nbeerbower <huggingface.co/nbeerbower>Subject: Bubba-Qwen3.6-27B-LoRA
From: bartowski <huggingface.co/bartowski>Subject: bytkim_Qwen3.8-27B-pi-GGUF