MLX Community · First MLX build 19 May 2026
gemma-4-text-26b-a4b-it
MLX
Text apache-2.0
A 25B parameter text generation model, with one MLX build at 8-bit.
- Parameters
- 25B From Hugging Face
- Quantisation
- 8-bit gemma-4-text-26b-a4b-it-8bit
- Memory needed
- 32 GB Estimate, unified memory
- Download
- 26.8 GB Weights, estimated
- Downloads
- 79 This build, last 30 days
- Task
- Text generation Text
- MLX builds
- 1 On mlx-community
- Devices
- Mac Apple silicon
Memory
Will it fit?Needs about 32 GB at 8-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-lm$ pip install -U mlx-lm
$ mlx_lm.generate --model mlx-community/gemma-4-text-26b-a4b-it-8bit --prompt "Hello"MLX builds
1 on mlx-community| gemma-4-text-26b-a4b-it-8bit | 8-bit | 26.8 GB | 32 GB | 79 |
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Sizes are estimated from Hugging Face’s parameter counts and the quantisation. Downloads are for the last 30 days.