Black Forest Labs · First MLX build 18 Oct 2026
flux-3-image-klein-pup
MLX
TextVision apache-2.0
A 9.4B parameter vision and text model from Black Forest Labs, with 3 MLX builds, from 4-bit to bf16.
- Parameters
- 9.4B From Hugging Face
- Quantisation
- 4-bit flux-3-image-klein-pup-4bit
- Memory needed
- 9 GB Estimate, unified memory
- Download
- 6.0 GB Weights, estimated
- Downloads
- 470 This build, last 30 days
- Task
- Vision and text Text, Vision
- MLX builds
- 3 On mlx-community
- Devices
- Mac Apple silicon
Memory
Will it fit?Needs about 9 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-vlm$ pip install -U mlx-vlm
$ python -m mlx_vlm.generate --model mlx-community/flux-3-image-klein-pup-4bit --image photo.jpg --prompt "Describe this image"MLX builds
3 on mlx-community| flux-3-image-klein-pup-4bit | 4-bit | 6.0 GB | 9 GB | 470 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| flux-3-image-klein-pup-8bit | 8-bit | 10.4 GB | 14 GB | 415 |
| flux-3-image-klein-pup-bf16 | bf16 | 18.8 GB | 24 GB | 439 |
Sizes are estimated from Hugging Face’s parameter counts and the quantisation. Downloads are for the last 30 days.