MiMo-V2.6-Distill-Qwen-9B: hardware requirements

MiMo-V2.6-Distill-Qwen-9B needs about 7.0 GB of memory at Q4 quantization — a 5.8 GB download plus room for context and overhead. That fits a machine with 16GB RAM.

Parameters
9.4B
Tier
Runs on a laptop
Licence
See model card
Released
2026-09-21

Will it run on your machine?

Download sizes by quantization

Lower quantization means a smaller file and less memory, at some cost to quality. Q4_K_M is the usual starting point. What is this?

QuantDownloadRAM @ 4KRAM @ 32KSource
Q4_K_Mrecommended5.8 GB7.0 GB11 GBmeasured
Q5_K_M6.9 GB8.1 GB12 GBmeasured
Q6_K7.8 GB9.1 GB13 GBmeasured
Q8_09.5 GB11 GB15 GBmeasured
BF1619 GB21 GB25 GBmeasured

“Measured” sizes are read from published GGUF files (bartowski/MiMo-V2.6-Distill-Qwen-9B-GGUF). “Estimated” sizes are derived from the parameter count and are typically within a few percent. The RAM columns add the context cache and runtime overhead to the download size.

Model card on HuggingFace →API specs & pricing →Verified 2026-09-26Listed for 120 days after release