What are the hardware requirements for Qwen2.5 Coder 7B Instruct MLX?

Qwen2.5 Coder 7B Instruct MLX requires approximately 15.2 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 32K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Qwen2.5 Coder 7B Instruct MLX and how large is it?

Qwen2.5 Coder 7B Instruct MLX is developed by mlx-community, a model with 7b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

Where can I download or evaluate Qwen2.5 Coder 7B Instruct MLX?

Qwen2.5 Coder 7B Instruct MLX is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Qwen2.5 Coder 7B Instruct MLX by mlx-community — VRAM 15.2GB, 32K context

Name: Qwen2.5 Coder 7B Instruct MLX
Author: mlx-community

Qwen2.5 Coder 7B Instruct MLX is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 7b LLM, VRAM: 15.2GB, Context: 32K, License: apache-2.0, Instruction-Based, Code Generating, LLM Explorer Score: 0.25.

Base model:finetune:qwen/qwen2... Base model:qwen/qwen2.5-coder-... Chat Code Codegen Codeqwen Conversational En Instruct Mlx Qwen Qwen-coder Qwen2 Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-MLX

Qwen2.5 Coder 7B Instruct MLX Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	Qwen2.5 Coder 7B Instruct MLX
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-MLX
Base Model(s)	Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct
Model Size	7b
Required VRAM	15.2 GB
Updated	2026-07-25
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	qwen2
Instruction-Based	Yes
Model Files	5.3 GB: 1-of-3 5.3 GB: 2-of-3 4.6 GB: 3-of-3
Supported Languages	en
Generates Code	Yes
Model Architecture	Qwen2ForCausalLM
License	apache-2.0
Context Length	32768
Model Max Length	32768
Transformers Version	4.44.0
Tokenizer Class	Qwen2Tokenizer
Padding Token	<\|endoftext\|>
Vocabulary Size	152064
Torch Data Type	bfloat16
Errors	replace

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Qwen2.5 Coder 7B Instruct	32K / 15.2 GB	2019400	765
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