Qwen · 30B · Desktop / import
Qwen 3 30B-A3B Instruct on a phone
Mixture-of-experts: 30B total, ~3B active. Big-model taste on a strong Mac or GPU.
- Parameters
- 30B
- Typical Q4
- ~16 GB (Q4 MoE)
- RAM to budget
- ~20 GB
- Engines
- GGUF
Get it running
Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507 MoE. Q4 is lighter than dense 30B; still not a phone model. Hugging Face: Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507.
Load in LM Studio or Ollama, then chat from the phone.
Get LM Mini and load a model that actually fits — on-device, or via Connect to a PC.
Phones that can run it
- None in this guide — use a Mac or Connect.
Tight (close other apps)
- None in this guide — use a Mac or Connect.