{"id":5511,"date":"2026-09-27T12:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T03:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/formats-en\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T21:30:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T12:30:42","slug":"formats-en","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/formats-en\/","title":{"rendered":"Model Formats: GGUF, MLX, AWQ and More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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. &#8220;This repo \/ other builds&#8221; 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/models-en\/\">model family index<\/a>; for the companies and labs behind them, the <a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/publishers-en\/\">publisher index<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"lmw-table-scroll\" tabindex=\"0\" style=\"overflow-x:auto;-webkit-overflow-scrolling:touch;max-width:100%;\">\n<table style=\"width:max-content;min-width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Format<\/th>\n<th>Articles<\/th>\n<th>This repo \/ other builds<\/th>\n<th>Latest article<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/format-gguf-en\/\">GGUF<\/a><\/td>\n<td>22<\/td>\n<td>12 \/ 10<\/td>\n<td>2026-09-26<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/format-safetensors-en\/\">Safetensors<\/a><\/td>\n<td>29<\/td>\n<td>29 \/ 0<\/td>\n<td>2026-09-27<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/format-mlx-en\/\">MLX<\/a><\/td>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<td>2 \/ 4<\/td>\n<td>2026-09-26<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/format-gptq-en\/\">GPTQ<\/a><\/td>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>0 \/ 1<\/td>\n<td>2026-09-08<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/format-fp8-en\/\">FP8<\/a><\/td>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>1 \/ 3<\/td>\n<td>2026-09-26<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/format-fp4-en\/\">NVFP4 \/ MXFP4<\/a><\/td>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<td>3 \/ 3<\/td>\n<td>2026-09-27<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/format-onnx-en\/\">ONNX<\/a><\/td>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>1 \/ 0<\/td>\n<td>2026-09-19<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. &#8220;This repo \/ other builds&#8221; separates articles whose repository itself is in that format from those where we found a build of the model in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5511","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"lang":"en","translations":{"en":5511,"ja":5510},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5511"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5916,"href":"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5511\/revisions\/5916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/localmodelwatch.tsuchitsuchi.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}