codelion · First MLX build 13 Jun 2026
dhara-250m
MLX
Text apache-2.0
A 249M parameter text generation model from codelion, with one MLX build at 8-bit.
- Parameters
- 249M From Hugging Face
- Quantisation
- 8-bit dhara-250m-OptiQ-8bit
- Memory needed
- 3 GB Estimate, unified memory
- Download
- 356 MB Weights, estimated
- Downloads
- 66 This build, last 30 days
- Task
- Text generation Text
- MLX builds
- 1 On mlx-community
- Devices
- Mac Apple silicon
Memory
Will it fit?Needs about 3 GB at 8-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/dhara-250m-OptiQ-8bit --prompt "Hello"MLX builds
1 on mlx-community| dhara-250m-OptiQ-8bit | 8-bit | 356 MB | 3 GB | 66 |
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Sizes are estimated from Hugging Face’s parameter counts and the quantisation. Downloads are for the last 30 days.