MLX Community · First MLX build 21 Oct 2025

Qwen3-VL-32B-Instruct

MLX TextVision apache-2.0

A vision and text model, with 6 MLX builds, from 4-bit to 5-bit.

Hugging Face
Parameters
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Not published
Quantisation
4-bit
Qwen3-VL-32B-Instruct-4bit
Memory needed
— GB
Estimate, unified memory
Download
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Weights, estimated
Downloads
708
This build, last 30 days
Task
Vision and text
Text, Vision
MLX builds
6
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 · mlx-vlm
$ pip install -U mlx-vlm
$ python -m mlx_vlm.generate --model mlx-community/Qwen3-VL-32B-Instruct-4bit --image photo.jpg --prompt "Describe this image"

MLX builds

6 on mlx-community
Click a column to sort. Smallest size and most downloads are highlighted.
Qwen3-VL-32B-Instruct-4bit 4-bit — — 708
Qwen3-VL-32B-Instruct-8bit 8-bit — — 263
Qwen3-VL-32B-Instruct-6bit 6-bit — — 55
Qwen3-VL-32B-Instruct-3bit 3-bit — — 46
Qwen3-VL-32B-Instruct-bf16 bf16 — — 45
Qwen3-VL-32B-Instruct-5bit 5-bit — — 34

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