codellama · First MLX build 27 Apr 2025
CodeLlama-7b-Instruct-hf
MLX
Text llama2
A 6.7B parameter text generation model from codellama, with 3 MLX builds, from 4-bit to 8-bit.
- Parameters
- 6.7B From Hugging Face
- Quantisation
- 8-bit CodeLlama-7b-Instruct-hf-8bit-mlx
- Memory needed
- 11 GB Estimate, unified memory
- Download
- 7.2 GB Weights, estimated
- Downloads
- 49 This build, last 30 days
- Task
- Text generation Text
- MLX builds
- 3 On mlx-community
- Devices
- Mac Apple silicon
Memory
Will it fit?Needs about 11 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/CodeLlama-7b-Instruct-hf-8bit-mlx --prompt "Hello"MLX builds
3 on mlx-community| CodeLlama-7b-Instruct-hf-4bit-mlx-2 | 4-bit | 3.8 GB | 7 GB | 44 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CodeLlama-7b-Instruct-hf-6bit-mlx | 6-bit | 5.5 GB | 9 GB | 32 |
| CodeLlama-7b-Instruct-hf-8bit-mlx | 8-bit | 7.2 GB | 11 GB | 49 |
Sizes are estimated from Hugging Face’s parameter counts and the quantisation. Downloads are for the last 30 days.