Alibaba Qwen · First MLX build 28 Apr 2025
Qwen3-14B
MLX
Text apache-2.0
A 15B parameter text generation model from Alibaba Qwen, with 6 MLX builds, from 3-bit to bf16.
- Parameters
- 15B From Hugging Face
- Quantisation
- 4-bit Qwen3-14B-4bit
- Memory needed
- 12 GB Estimate, unified memory
- Download
- 8.3 GB Weights, estimated
- Downloads
- 7.5K This build, last 30 days
- Task
- Text generation Text
- MLX builds
- 6 On mlx-community
- Devices
- Mac Apple silicon
Memory
Will it fit?Needs about 12 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 · mlx-lm$ pip install -U mlx-lm
$ mlx_lm.generate --model mlx-community/Qwen3-14B-4bit --prompt "Hello"MLX builds
6 on mlx-community| Qwen3-14B-3bit | 3-bit | 6.5 GB | 10 GB | 129 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3-14B-4bit | 4-bit | 8.3 GB | 12 GB | 7.5K |
| Qwen3-14B-4bit-DWQ-053125 | 4-bit DWQ | 8.3 GB | 12 GB | 220 |
| Qwen3-14B-6bit | 6-bit | 12.0 GB | 16 GB | 579 |
| Qwen3-14B-8bit | 8-bit | 15.7 GB | 20 GB | 659 |
| Qwen3-14B-bf16 | bf16 | 29.5 GB | 36 GB | 103 |
Sizes are estimated from Hugging Face’s parameter counts and the quantisation. Downloads are for the last 30 days.