Models
76 open-weight models, sized
Updated 21 Aug 2026 5 new this week, 14 this month
Parameter counts, layer counts and attention shapes are read from each model's own config, because the KV-cache arithmetic depends on them exactly. Sizes below are at Q4_K_M and 8K context against a Radeon RX 7900 XTX. Missing a model that shipped this week? Open an issue — the table is hand-maintained.
| Model | Released | Params | Quant | Weights | Max context | Licence | On this rig | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.5 2B Phone-class, and multimodal. Replaces Llama 3.2 3B as the "it runs on anything" answer. |
28 Feb 2026 | 2.27B | Q4_K_M | 1.3 GB | 256K | Apache 2.0 | 455 tok/s | Check · Hardware |
| Ministral 3 3B Edge model with a vision encoder and a 256K window. Apache 2.0. |
Dec 2025 | 3.85B | Q4_K_M | 2.2 GB | 256K | Apache 2.0 | 268 tok/s | Check · Hardware |
| Gemma 3 4B Vision-capable at 4B. Superseded by Gemma 4 E4B, still everywhere. |
Mar 2025 | 4.3B | Q4_K_M | 2.4 GB | 128K | Gemma Terms of Use | 240 tok/s | Check · Hardware |
| Qwen3.5 4B The 8 GB coding agent. Q4 lands near 3.4 GB, leaving room for a real context window. |
28 Feb 2026 | 4.66B | Q4_K_M | 2.6 GB | 256K | Apache 2.0 | 222 tok/s | Check · Hardware |
| Gemma 4 E2B "E2B" is 2.3B effective, but the file holds 5B because of per-layer embeddings — size it as 5B. Text, image and audio in. |
2 Apr 2026 | 5.1B | Q4_K_M | 2.9 GB | 128K | Apache 2.0 | 203 tok/s | Check · Hardware |
| Gemma 4 E4B The laptop Gemma. 4.5B effective, 8B on disk; a single KV head per window layer keeps its cache tiny. |
2 Apr 2026 | 8.0B | Q4_K_M | 4.5 GB | 128K | Apache 2.0 | 129 tok/s | Check · Hardware |
| Fara 7B A web computer-use agent on a Qwen2.5-VL base — it clicks, fills forms and stops for permission. Not a chat model; size it like an 8B with vision. |
24 Nov 2025 | 8.29B | Q4_K_M | 4.7 GB | 125K | MIT | 125 tok/s | Check · Hardware |
| Ministral 3 8B Mistral's 8B with images in. Plain GQA, so budget more KV cache than Qwen3.5 9B at the same context. |
Dec 2025 | 8.92B | Q4_K_M | 5.0 GB | 256K | Apache 2.0 | 116 tok/s | Check · Hardware |
| Qwen3.5 9B The default for 8–12 GB cards in 2026: beats every older 8B on every published benchmark, with vision. |
28 Feb 2026 | 9.65B | Q4_K_M | 5.4 GB | 256K | Apache 2.0 | 107 tok/s | Check · Hardware |
| Gemma 4 12B The "unified" Gemma 4: text, image and audio in one 12B that fits a 12 GB card at Q4. 140+ languages. |
29 May 2026 | 12B | Q4_K_M | 6.7 GB | 256K | Apache 2.0 | 86 tok/s | Check · Hardware |
| Gemma 3 12B Strong multilingual chat with images, sized for 12–16 GB cards. Gemma 4 12B is the same size and better. |
Mar 2025 | 12.2B | Q4_K_M | 6.9 GB | 128K | Gemma Terms of Use | 85 tok/s | Check · Hardware |
| Ministral 3 14B The largest Ministral. A 12 GB card runs it at Q4 with a few gigabytes to spare. |
Dec 2025 | 13.9B | Q4_K_M | 7.8 GB | 256K | Apache 2.0 | 74 tok/s | Check · Hardware |
| Mistral Small 3.2 24B Apache-2.0, vision-capable, and the most 24 GB-friendly of the 2025 generalists. |
Jun 2025 | 23.6B | Q4_K_M | 13.3 GB | 128K | Apache 2.0 | 44 tok/s | Check · Hardware |
| Gemma 4 26B-A4B Mixture of experts with 3.8B active. Slower to think than Qwen3.6 35B-A3B, faster to answer, and it sees images. |
2 Apr 2026 | 26.5B MoE | Q4_K_M | 14.9 GB | 256K | Apache 2.0 | 105 tok/s | Check · Hardware |
| Gemma 3 27B The 2025 single-GPU generalist with vision. Its Gemma-licence terms are the reason to prefer Gemma 4 now. |
Mar 2025 | 27.4B | Q4_K_M | 15.4 GB | 128K | Gemma Terms of Use | 38 tok/s | Check · Hardware |
| Qwen3.8 27B New this week The current default local Qwen: dense 27B, text + image + video, 262K context. Only 16 of its 64 blocks keep a KV cache, so long context is cheap. |
14 Aug 2026 | 27.8B | Q4_K_M | 15.6 GB | 256K | Apache 2.0 | 37 tok/s | Check · Hardware |
| Qwen3.6 27B The 24 GB coding pick of spring 2026 (77.2 SWE-bench Verified). Same shape as 3.8, one generation behind. |
22 Apr 2026 | 27.8B | Q4_K_M | 15.6 GB | 256K | Apache 2.0 | 37 tok/s | Check · Hardware |
| Muse Glimmer 30B New Meta's first open weights since Llama 4: a dense 30B distilled from Muse Spark for always-on local agents. Two KV heads keep the cache small. |
10 Aug 2026 | 29.8B | Q4_K_M | 16.8 GB | 128K | Apache 2.0 | 35 tok/s | Check · Hardware |
| Gemma 4 31B The dense flagship: strongest maths of the 24–32 GB class (89% AIME), clean prose, vision. Q4 is a tight 24 GB fit. |
2 Apr 2026 | 31.3B | Q4_K_M | 17.6 GB | 256K | Apache 2.0 | 33 tok/s | Check · Hardware |
| Qwen3.6 35B-A3B Mixture of experts with ~3B active: the fastest serious model a 24 GB card runs, and the best MoE under 40B on agentic coding. |
16 Apr 2026 | 35.9B MoE | Q4_K_M | 20.2 GB | 256K | Apache 2.0 | 120 tok/s | Check · Hardware |
| Llama 4 Scout 109B-A17B A 10M-token window on paper, chunked attention in practice (8K chunks on 3 of 4 layers). Needs 64 GB+ at Q4. |
5 Apr 2025 | 109B MoE | Q4_K_M | 61.3 GB | 1024K | Llama 4 Community | won't fit | Check · Hardware |
| Mistral Small 4 119B-A6B Instruct, reasoning, vision and code in one 119B MoE. A latent KV cache (320 wide) keeps context cheap; the weights still want 64 GB+. |
17 Mar 2026 | 119B MoE | Q4_K_M | 66.9 GB | 256K | Apache 2.0 | won't fit | Check · Hardware |
| Qwen3.5 122B-A10B The 96–128 GB unified-memory model: 122B of knowledge at 10B-active speed. |
24 Feb 2026 | 125B MoE | Q4_K_M | 70.3 GB | 256K | Apache 2.0 | won't fit | Check · Hardware |
| Qwen3.5 397B-A17B Flagship-class at 17B active. A 256 GB Mac Studio or a multi-GPU box at Q4. |
16 Feb 2026 | 403B MoE | Q4_K_M | 226.6 GB | 256K | Apache 2.0 | won't fit | Check · Hardware |
| Kimi K3 2.8T-A104B New The largest open-weight model ever published. 69 of 93 blocks are linear attention, so its cache is tiny; its 2.8T weights are the problem. |
27 Jul 2026 | 2780B MoE | Q4_K_M | 1563.2 GB | 1024K | Modified MIT | won't fit | Check · Hardware |
Weight sizes are computed from the parameter count and the quantisation's effective bits per weight, not read off a file listing — expect them to land within a few percent of the GGUF you actually download. The method, in full.