dhara-250m-OptiQ-8bit

codelion/dhara-250m, quantized by OptiQ for Apple Silicon.

On disk0.4 GB

Memoryabout 2 GB

Use it

Install

pip install mlx-optiq

Serve it

An OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible server on this Mac. Every app below can use it.

optiq serve --model mlx-community/dhara-250m-OptiQ-8bit

OptiQ Code

The terminal coding agent uses whatever model optiq serve is running.

optiq serve --model mlx-community/dhara-250m-OptiQ-8bit
optiq code

OptiQ Lab

optiq lab --model mlx-community/dhara-250m-OptiQ-8bit

Claude Code

optiq run claude -m mlx-community/dhara-250m-OptiQ-8bit

Codex

optiq run codex -m mlx-community/dhara-250m-OptiQ-8bit

OpenCode

optiq run opencode -m mlx-community/dhara-250m-OptiQ-8bit

Mistral Vibe

optiq run vibe -m mlx-community/dhara-250m-OptiQ-8bit

Hermes Agent

optiq run hermes -m mlx-community/dhara-250m-OptiQ-8bit

OpenClaw

optiq run openclaw -m mlx-community/dhara-250m-OptiQ-8bit

optiq run starts optiq serve if it is not running, sets the agent up for this session only, and stops the server when the agent exits.

mlx-lm, text only

from mlx_lm import load, generate

model, tokenizer = load("mlx-community/dhara-250m-OptiQ-8bit")
print(generate(model, tokenizer, prompt="Hello", max_tokens=256))

Details

Family	dhara
Architecture	dhara
Base model	codelion/dhara-250m
Size on disk	0.4 GB
Memory needed	about 2 GB
Images	no, text only
Downloads	85 in the last month
Updated	2026-07-12
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