MiniMax · First MLX build 16 Aug 2026
MiniMax-Music3
MLX
Audio minimax-music3-community-license Trending
A 12B parameter text to audio model from MiniMax, with 7 MLX builds, from 4-bit to bf16.
- Parameters
- 12B From Hugging Face
- Quantisation
- 4-bit MiniMax-Music3-4bit
- Memory needed
- 13 GB Estimate, unified memory
- Download
- 9.2 GB Weights, estimated
- Downloads
- 506 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 13 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/MiniMax-Music3-4bitMLX builds
7 on mlx-community| MiniMax-Music3-4bit | 4-bit | 9.2 GB | 13 GB | 506 |
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| MiniMax-Music3-mxfp4 | MXFP4 | 9.2 GB | 13 GB | 130 |
| MiniMax-Music3-nvfp4 | 4-bit | 9.2 GB | 13 GB | 65 |
| MiniMax-Music3-6bit | 6-bit | 11.7 GB | 16 GB | 145 |
| MiniMax-Music3-8bit | 8-bit | 14.2 GB | 18 GB | 395 |
| MiniMax-Music3-mxfp8 | MXFP8 | 14.2 GB | 18 GB | 383 |
| MiniMax-Music3-bf16 | bf16 | 28.5 GB | 34 GB | 180 |
Sizes are estimated from Hugging Face’s parameter counts and the quantisation. Downloads are for the last 30 days.