What are the hardware requirements for Stable Code 3B Mlx?

Stable Code 3B Mlx requires approximately 5.6 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 16K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed Stable Code 3B Mlx and how large is it?

Stable Code 3B Mlx is developed by mlx-community, a model with 3b 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 Stable Code 3B Mlx?

Stable Code 3B Mlx is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

Stable Code 3B Mlx by mlx-community — VRAM 5.6GB, 16K context

Name: Stable Code 3B Mlx
Author: mlx-community

Stable Code 3B Mlx is an open-source language model by mlx-community. Features: 3b LLM, VRAM: 5.6GB, Context: 16K, License: other, LLM Explorer Score: 0.11.

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Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/stable-code-3b-mlx

Stable Code 3B Mlx Parameters and Internals

Model Type

text-generation

Additional Notes

This model was converted to MLX format.

LLM Name	Stable Code 3B Mlx
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/stable-code-3b-mlx
Model Size	3b
Required VRAM	5.6 GB
Updated	2026-08-06
Maintainer	mlx-community
Model Type	stablelm_epoch
Model Files	5.6 GB
Supported Languages	en
Model Architecture	StableLMEpochForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	16384
Model Max Length	16384
Transformers Version	4.36.2
Vocabulary Size	50304
Torch Data Type	bfloat16

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Aura 3B	4K / 5.6 GB	3	2
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Slim Boolean	4K / 5.6 GB	9	4
Slim Sa Ner	4K / 5.6 GB	20	6
Slim Tags 3B	4K / 5.6 GB	11	4
Slim Summary	4K / 5.6 GB	10	8
Slim Xsum	4K / 5.6 GB	14	6
Tofu 3B	4K / 5.6 GB	5	2
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Note: green Score (e.g. "73.2") means that the model is better than mlx-community/stable-code-3b-mlx.