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Step-3.5-Flash-6bit

mlx-community/Step-3.5-Flash-6bit
6-bit Open on Hugging Face
Parameters
197B
Weights (est.)
≈ 160 GB
Mac memory (est.)
192 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/Step-3.5-Flash-6bit --prompt "Hello"

Details

Base model
stepfun-ai/Step-3.5-Flash (quantized)
Vendor
stepfun-ai
Task
Text generation
Quantisation
6-bit
Licence
apache-2.0
Downloads
88 in the last 30 days · 3.6K all time · 1 likes
Published
2026-02-03 · updated 2026-02-04 (9mo ago)
Tags
step3p5, custom_code

Other MLX builds of stepfun-ai/Step-3.5-Flash

Build Quantisation Weights Mac memory Downloads
Step-3.5-Flash-4bit 4-bit ≈ 111 GB 128 GB+ 405
Step-3.5-Flash-6bit (this one) 6-bit ≈ 160 GB 192 GB+ 88
Step-3.5-Flash-8bit 8-bit ≈ 209 GB 256 GB+ 93
Step-3.5-Flash-bf16 bf16 ≈ 394 GB 512 GB+ 29