MLX Community · First MLX build 3 Dec 2025

Ministral-3-8B-Reasoning-2512

MLX apache-2.0

A 8.9B parameter model, with 5 MLX builds, from bf16 to 5-bit.

Hugging Face
Parameters
8.9B
From Hugging Face
Quantisation
4-bit
Ministral-3-8B-Reasoning-2512-4bit
Memory needed
— GB
Estimate, unified memory
Download
—
Weights, estimated
Downloads
234
This build, last 30 days
Task
—
MLX builds
5
On mlx-community
Devices
Mac
Apple silicon

Memory

Hugging Face does not list a weights size for this build, so there is no memory estimate.

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/Ministral-3-8B-Reasoning-2512-4bit

MLX builds

5 on mlx-community
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Ministral-3-8B-Reasoning-2512-bf16 bf16 17.8 GB 22 GB 34
Ministral-3-8B-Reasoning-2512-4bit 4-bit — — 234
Ministral-3-8B-Reasoning-2512-8bit 8-bit — — 68
Ministral-3-8B-Reasoning-2512-6bit 6-bit — — 58
Ministral-3-8B-Reasoning-2512-5bit 5-bit — — 43

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