Alibaba Qwen · First MLX build 20 Sept 2026
Qwen2-VL-2B
MLX
TextVision apache-2.0
A 2.2B parameter vision and text model from Alibaba Qwen, with one MLX build.
- Parameters
- 2.2B From Hugging Face
- Quantisation
- Unstated Qwen2-VL-2B-mlx
- Memory needed
- 7 GB Estimate, unified memory
- Download
- 4.4 GB Weights, estimated
- Downloads
- 78 This build, last 30 days
- Task
- Vision and text Text, Vision
- MLX builds
- 1 On mlx-community
- Devices
- Mac Apple silicon
Memory
Will it fit?Needs about 7 GB at Unstated
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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 · mlx-vlm$ pip install -U mlx-vlm
$ python -m mlx_vlm.generate --model mlx-community/Qwen2-VL-2B-mlx --image photo.jpg --prompt "Describe this image"MLX builds
1 on mlx-community| Qwen2-VL-2B-mlx | Unstated | 4.4 GB | 7 GB | 78 |
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Sizes are estimated from Hugging Face’s parameter counts and the quantisation. Downloads are for the last 30 days.