ACE-Step · First MLX build 13 Apr 2026
ACE-Step1.5
MLX
Audio mit
A 2.4B parameter text to audio model from ACE-Step, with 7 MLX builds, from fp32 to bf16.
- Parameters
- 2.4B From Hugging Face
- Quantisation
- 4-bit ACE-Step1.5-MLX-4bit
- Memory needed
- 5 GB Estimate, unified memory
- Download
- 2.1 GB Weights, estimated
- Downloads
- 306 This build, last 30 days
- Task
- Text to audio Audio
- MLX builds
- 7 On mlx-community
- Devices
- Mac Apple silicon
Memory
Will it fit?Needs about 5 GB at 4-bit
8 GB
16 GB
24 GB
32 GB
64 GB
128 GB
Fits with headroomTight, close other appsWon’t fit
Estimated from the size of the weights, plus a fifth for context and working memory and 2 GB for macOS and your apps. Long contexts need more.
Run it
Terminal · Hugging Face CLI$ pip install -U huggingface_hub
$ hf download mlx-community/ACE-Step1.5-MLX-4bitMLX builds
7 on mlx-community| ACE-Step-1.5-vae-fp32 | fp32 | 675 MB | 3 GB | 166 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ACE-Step-1.5-planner-1.7B-4bit | 4-bit | 1.7 GB | 4 GB | 105 |
| ACE-Step1.5-MLX-4bit | 4-bit | 2.1 GB | 5 GB | 306 |
| ACE-Step-1.5-planner-1.7B-8bit | 8-bit | 2.4 GB | 5 GB | 113 |
| ACE-Step-1.5-planner-1.7B-bf16 | bf16 | 3.7 GB | 7 GB | 137 |
| ACE-Step-1.5-turbo-bf16 | bf16 | 4.8 GB | 8 GB | 184 |
| ACE-Step1.5-MLX | Unstated | 9.6 GB | 13 GB | 235 |
Sizes are estimated from Hugging Face’s parameter counts and the quantisation. Downloads are for the last 30 days.