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title: apple/LensVLM-9B
url: https://recentmodel.com/models/apple/LensVLM-9B/
status: archived
published: 2026-09-21T18:18:20Z
updated: 2026-10-21T23:23:07Z
source: https://huggingface.co/apple/LensVLM-9B
---

# apple/LensVLM-9B

LensVLM is a 9B Vision Language Model (VLM) that scans compressed images of text, then selectively expands only the relevant pages to their uncompressed form via learned tools. Dense, 9.4B params. Context: 256K tokens (config). License: apple-amlr.


- **Org:** apple
- **Released:** 2026-09-21
- **Status:** archived
- **License:** apple-amlr (restricted)
- **Parameters:** 9.4B
- **Architecture:** dense · Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration
- **Context:** 262,144 tokens
- **Task:** image-text-to-text · vision
- **Signal:** 293 HF likes · 2870 downloads
- **Archived:** 2026-10-21 (aged out (older than 30 days); stats as last seen)

## Runs on

real quant files; sizing calculation, not tested.

- Q4 ~7.9 GB: 12GB GPU (RTX 3060)
- Q8 ~11.6 GB: 16GB GPU (5060 Ti / 4060 Ti / 4080 / 5080), 16GB GPU (7800 XT / 9070 XT), Mac 16GB, Mac 24GB
- FP16 ~20.0 GB: 24GB GPU (3090 / 4090), 32GB GPU (5090), 48GB GPU (RTX 6000 Ada / A6000), 96GB GPU (RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell), 1× DGX Spark (128GB), 2× DGX Spark (256GB), 24GB GPU (7900 XTX), Strix Halo 128GB unified (~96GB usable), Arc B60 24GB, Arc B70 32GB, Mac 36GB, Mac 48GB, Mac 64GB (M1 Max), Mac 96GB, Mac 128GB, Mac 192GB, Mac 256GB, Mac 512GB, CPU only, 32GB RAM (slow), CPU only, 64GB RAM (slow), CPU only, 128GB RAM (slow), CPU only, 256GB RAM (slow)

## Links

- [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/apple/LensVLM-9B)
- [GGUF: bartowski/LensVLM-9B-GGUF](https://huggingface.co/bartowski/LensVLM-9B-GGUF)
- [MLX: mlx-community/LensVLM-9B-OptiQ-4bit](https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/LensVLM-9B-OptiQ-4bit)