Model Formats: GGUF, MLX, AWQ and More

September 27, 2026

Model formats you will meet when running models locally, each with an explanation, the main engines that load it and the models we have covered that are available in it. “This repo / other builds" separates articles whose repository itself is in that format from those where we found a build of the model in it. A format gets its page once we have at least one article on it. For model families, see the model family index; for the companies and labs behind them, the publisher index.