Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B is a mixture-of-experts coding model with 30.5 billion parameters, 3.3 billion active per token. It's tuned for agentic coding and browser use, with a function-call format for tools such as Qwen Code and Cline, and a native 262,144-token context (up to 1M with YaRN).
A 4-bit MLX build is about 17 GB; on mlx.app's estimate it needs a Mac with 32 GB of memory.
Open weights under Apache 2.0. Run locally, nothing leaves your Mac.
How to Get It
Official downloads only. MLX never re-hosts an app, and never runs a command for you.
MLX Score
Ranked against the open models listings, from real public data only. How the score works.
Information
- Developer
- Qwen (Alibaba)
- Category
- Open models
- Price
- Free (Open weights, free to download.)
- Your data
- Runs on your Mac
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Mac
- macOS 14.0 or later
- iPhone and iPad
- —
- Needs
- 32 GB memory
- Links
- Website · Hugging Face
- Facts checked
- 2026-11-01
Sources
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