Alibaba Qwen · First MLX build 1 Jan 2026

Qwen-Image-2512

MLX Image apache-2.0

A text to image model from Alibaba Qwen, with 4 MLX builds, from 4-bit to 5-bit.

Hugging Face
Parameters
—
Not published
Quantisation
4-bit
Qwen-Image-2512-4bit
Memory needed
— GB
Estimate, unified memory
Download
—
Weights, estimated
Downloads
17K
This build, last 30 days
Task
Text to image
Image
MLX builds
4
On mlx-community
Devices
Mac
Apple silicon

Memory

Hugging Face does not list a weights size for this build, so there is no memory estimate.

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/Qwen-Image-2512-4bit

MLX builds

4 on mlx-community
Click a column to sort. Smallest size and most downloads are highlighted.
Qwen-Image-2512-4bit 4-bit — — 17K
Qwen-Image-2512-6bit 6-bit — — 1.2K
Qwen-Image-2512-3bit 3-bit — — 559
Qwen-Image-2512-5bit 5-bit — — 382

Sizes are estimated from Hugging Face’s parameter counts and the quantisation. Downloads are for the last 30 days.