codellama · First MLX build 27 Apr 2025

CodeLlama-13b-hf

MLX Text llama2

A 13B parameter text generation model from codellama, with 3 MLX builds, from 4-bit to 8-bit.

Hugging Face
Parameters
13B
From Hugging Face
Quantisation
8-bit
CodeLlama-13b-hf-8bit-mlx
Memory needed
18 GB
Estimate, unified memory
Download
13.8 GB
Weights, estimated
Downloads
50
This build, last 30 days
Task
Text generation
Text
MLX builds
3
On mlx-community
Devices
Mac
Apple silicon

Memory

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/CodeLlama-13b-hf-8bit-mlx --prompt "Hello"

MLX builds

3 on mlx-community
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CodeLlama-13b-hf-4bit-mlx 4-bit 7.3 GB 11 GB 42
CodeLlama-13b-hf-6bit-mlx 6-bit 10.6 GB 14 GB 31
CodeLlama-13b-hf-8bit-mlx 8-bit 13.8 GB 18 GB 50

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