Qwen3.5 9B
Keeps a lot of your chat in mind at once. Fits a 16 GB machine.
Model / Alibaba Qwen
Trust score 84 of 100. Yes, OSI-approved license.
Short answer (as of Oct 14, 2026): Qwen3 30B-A3B 2507 is a local AI model from Alibaba Qwen. Truly open? Yes, OSI-approved license. Business use: yes. Our estimate says it needs about 24 GB of RAM. Trust score 84 of 100.
As of Oct 14, 2026: license Apache License 2.0; business use yes; sign-up not needed; about 24 GB RAM (estimate); trust score 84/100. Sources.
Fast for its size. Good chat and tool use.
Who makes it: Alibaba Qwen. The files come from the maker's own Hugging Face account.
License: Apache License 2.0. A standard open source license. You can use, change, and share it, even to make money. Keep the license notice.
Business use: Yes. Business use is allowed. Keep the license and notice files when you share it.
Training data: We have not found a full public data release. Not yet checked in depth.
Pick a computer with at least 32 GB of memory. On a Mac, that is the unified memory. On a PC, a graphics card with that much VRAM is fastest. A PC with only normal RAM will also work, just slower. This model uses a mix of experts. Only part of it works on each word, so it runs faster than its size suggests.
lmstudio-community/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507-GGUF.Q4_K_M. It is the best mix of size and quality for most people.The files are GGUF builds that LM Studio can load. We checked that this repo exists on Oct 14, 2026. Full LM Studio guide.
Does it fit? Yes. Its memory window is big enough for Hermes.
hermes model. Choose LM Studio and press Enter to keep http://localhost:1234/v1.hermes to start.Yes, OSI-approved license. A standard open source license. You can use, change, and share it, even to make money. Keep the license notice.
Yes. Business use is allowed. Keep the license and notice files when you share it.
No. Download without an account.
Our estimate is about 24 GB of RAM for a 4-bit file of about 18.3 GB. This is a rough guide, not a test.
| Fact | What we found | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Alibaba Qwen | Verified Oct 14, 2026 |
| License | Apache License 2.0 | Verified Oct 14, 2026 |
| License plain | A standard open source license. You can use, change, and share it, even to make money. Keep the license notice. | Verified Oct 14, 2026 |
| Truly open | Yes, OSI-approved license | Verified Oct 14, 2026 |
| Business use | Yes. Business use is allowed. Keep the license and notice files when you share it. | Verified Oct 14, 2026 |
| Signup needed | No. Download without an account. | Verified Oct 14, 2026 |
| Parameters | 30.5 billion | Verified Oct 14, 2026 |
| Open training data | Not yet checked | We have not found a full public training data release. Not yet checked in depth. |
| Context window | 256K tokens | Verified Oct 14, 2026 |
| First posted | 2025-07-28 | Verified Oct 14, 2026 |
| Gguf files | lmstudio-community/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507-GGUF | Verified Oct 14, 2026 |
| Hermes ok | Yes | Verified Oct 14, 2026 |
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