MLX Community · First MLX build 24 Feb 2026
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B
MLX
TextVision apache-2.0
A 35B parameter vision and text model, with 5 MLX builds, from 4-bit to bf16.
- Parameters
- 35B From Hugging Face
- Quantisation
- 4-bit Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-4bit
- Memory needed
- 25 GB Estimate, unified memory
- Download
- 20.4 GB Weights, estimated
- Downloads
- 6.3K This build, last 30 days
- Task
- Vision and text Text, Vision
- MLX builds
- 5 On mlx-community
- Devices
- Mac Apple silicon
Memory
Will it fit?Needs about 25 GB at 4-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-vlm$ pip install -U mlx-vlm
$ python -m mlx_vlm.generate --model mlx-community/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-4bit --image photo.jpg --prompt "Describe this image"MLX builds
5 on mlx-community| Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-4bit | 4-bit | 20.4 GB | 25 GB | 6.3K |
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| Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-5bit | 5-bit | 24.7 GB | 30 GB | 67 |
| Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-6bit | 6-bit | 29.1 GB | 35 GB | 149 |
| Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-8bit | 8-bit | 37.7 GB | 45 GB | 1.7K |
| Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-bf16 | bf16 | 70.2 GB | 81 GB | 1.6K |
Sizes are estimated from Hugging Face’s parameter counts and the quantisation. Downloads are for the last 30 days.