MLX Community · First MLX build 4 Feb 2026

X-Reasoner-7B

MLX TextVision apache-2.0

A vision and text model, with one MLX build at 8-bit.

Hugging Face
Parameters
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Not published
Quantisation
8-bit
X-Reasoner-7B-8bit
Memory needed
— GB
Estimate, unified memory
Download
—
Weights, estimated
Downloads
23
This build, last 30 days
Task
Vision and text
Text, Vision
MLX builds
1
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/X-Reasoner-7B-8bit --image photo.jpg --prompt "Describe this image"

MLX builds

1 on mlx-community
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X-Reasoner-7B-8bit 8-bit — — 23

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