MLX Community · First MLX build 11 Feb 2026
Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B
MLX
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A 596M parameter embeddings model, with one MLX build at MXFP8.
- Parameters
- 596M From Hugging Face
- Quantisation
- MXFP8 Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B-mxfp8
- Memory needed
- 3 GB Estimate, unified memory
- Download
- 633 MB Weights, estimated
- Downloads
- 756 This build, last 30 days
- Task
- Embeddings Text
- MLX builds
- 1 On mlx-community
- Devices
- Mac Apple silicon
Memory
Will it fit?Needs about 3 GB at MXFP8
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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 · Hugging Face CLI$ pip install -U huggingface_hub
$ hf download mlx-community/Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B-mxfp8MLX builds
1 on mlx-community| Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B-mxfp8 | MXFP8 | 633 MB | 3 GB | 756 |
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Sizes are estimated from Hugging Face’s parameter counts and the quantisation. Downloads are for the last 30 days.