DeepSeek · First MLX build 20 Jan 2025

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B

MLX Text mit

A 7.6B parameter text generation model from DeepSeek, with 9 MLX builds, from 3-bit to bf16.

Hugging Face
Parameters
7.6B
From Hugging Face
Quantisation
4-bit
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B-4bit
Memory needed
7 GB
Estimate, unified memory
Download
4.3 GB
Weights, estimated
Downloads
2.7K
This build, last 30 days
Task
Text generation
Text
MLX builds
9
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 · Hugging Face CLI
$ pip install -U huggingface_hub
$ hf download mlx-community/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B-4bit

MLX builds

9 on mlx-community
Click a column to sort. Smallest size and most downloads are highlighted.
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B-3bit 3-bit 3.3 GB 6 GB 63
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B-4bit 4-bit 4.3 GB 7 GB 2.7K
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B-4bit-mlx 4-bit 4.3 GB 7 GB 88
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B-6bit 6-bit 6.2 GB 9 GB 86
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B-8bit 8-bit 8.1 GB 12 GB 733
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B-chat-mlx-16bit 16-bit 15.2 GB 20 GB 792
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B Unstated 15.2 GB 20 GB 636
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B-bf16 bf16 15.2 GB 20 GB 67
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B-MLX Unstated — — 0

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