3-bit Open on Hugging Face
Parameters
596M
Weights (est.)
≈ 261 MB
Mac memory (est.)
8 GB+
Size is estimated from the parameter count and quantisation. Memory allows a fifth extra for context plus 2 GB for the system; long contexts need more.
Run it
With mlx-lm on an Apple silicon Mac:
pip install mlx-lmmlx_lm.generate --model mlx-community/Qwen3-0.6B-3bit --prompt "Hello"
Details
- Base model
- Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B (quantized) · Qwen3 0.6B on the radar →
- Vendor
- Qwen
- Task
- Text generation
- Quantisation
- 3-bit
- Licence
- apache-2.0
- Downloads
- 72 in the last 30 days · 6.1K all time · 0 likes
- Published
- 2025-04-28 · updated 2025-04-28 (1y ago)
- Tags
- qwen3
Other MLX builds of Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B
| Build | Quantisation | Weights | Mac memory | Downloads |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3-0.6B-3bit (this one) | 3-bit | ≈ 261 MB | 8 GB+ | 72 |
| Qwen3-0.6B-4bit | 4-bit | ≈ 335 MB | 8 GB+ | 44K |
| Qwen3-0.6B-4bit-DWQ | 4-bit DWQ | ≈ 335 MB | 8 GB+ | 270 |
| Qwen3-0.6B-4bit-AWQ | 4-bit | ≈ 335 MB | 8 GB+ | 117 |
| Qwen3-0.6B-4bit-DWQ-053125 | 4-bit DWQ | ≈ 335 MB | 8 GB+ | 104 |
| Qwen3-0.6B-4bit-DWQ-05092025 | 4-bit DWQ | ≈ 335 MB | 8 GB+ | 53 |
| jina-reranker-v3-4bit-mxfp4 | MXFP4 | ≈ 336 MB | 8 GB+ | 142 |
| Qwen3-0.6B-6bit | 6-bit | ≈ 484 MB | 8 GB+ | 80 |
| Qwen3-0.6B-8bit | 8-bit | ≈ 633 MB | 8 GB+ | 40K |
| Qwen3-0.6B-bf16 | bf16 | ≈ 1.2 GB | 8 GB+ | 986 |
| Qwen3-0.6B | — | — | — | 0 |