diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 9f32fbc..ce71596 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ mlx_lm.generate --help
 To quantize a model from the command line run:
 
 ```
-mlx_lm.convert --hf-path mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3 -q
+mlx_lm.convert --model mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3 -q
 ```
 
 For more options run:
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ You can upload new models to Hugging Face by specifying `--upload-repo` to
 
 ```
 mlx_lm.convert \
-    --hf-path mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3 \
+    --model mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3 \
     -q \
     --upload-repo mlx-community/my-4bit-mistral
 ```
diff --git a/mlx_lm/convert.py b/mlx_lm/convert.py
index 6fb2304..3bb6ba1 100644
--- a/mlx_lm/convert.py
+++ b/mlx_lm/convert.py
@@ -179,7 +179,12 @@ def configure_parser() -> argparse.ArgumentParser:
         description="Convert Hugging Face model to MLX format"
     )
 
-    parser.add_argument("--hf-path", type=str, help="Path to the Hugging Face model.")
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--hf-path",
+        "--model",
+        type=str,
+        help="Path to the model. This can be a local path or a Hugging Face Hub model identifier.",
+    )
     parser.add_argument(
         "--mlx-path", type=str, default="mlx_model", help="Path to save the MLX model."
     )