showlab · First MLX build 20 Mar 2026
ShowUI-2B
MLX
TextVision mit
A 2.4B parameter vision and text model from showlab, with 2 MLX builds, from 6-bit to bf16.
- Parameters
- 2.4B From Hugging Face
- Quantisation
- 6-bit ShowUI-2B-6bit-v2
- Memory needed
- 6 GB Estimate, unified memory
- Download
- 2.8 GB Weights, estimated
- Downloads
- 37 This build, last 30 days
- Task
- Vision and text Text, Vision
- MLX builds
- 2 On mlx-community
- Devices
- Mac Apple silicon
Memory
Will it fit?Needs about 6 GB at 6-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/ShowUI-2B-6bit-v2 --image photo.jpg --prompt "Describe this image"MLX builds
2 on mlx-community| ShowUI-2B-6bit-v2 | 6-bit | 2.8 GB | 6 GB | 37 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ShowUI-2B-bf16-v2 | bf16 | 4.9 GB | 8 GB | 22 |
Sizes are estimated from Hugging Face’s parameter counts and the quantisation. Downloads are for the last 30 days.