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What local LLMs run on M4 Pro 64GB?

With 64 GB unified memory (about 48.0 GB usable by the GPU), these are the best open models that fit. The top pick is Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B (MoE, IQ2-class) at Default (~27.7 GB, ~36 tok/s): ollama run nemotron-3.5-bolt:74b-a9b.

Best for coding: Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B (MoE, IQ2-class) (nemotron-3.5-bolt:74b-a9b), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B (MoE) (qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0), Laguna XS 2.1 33B-A3B (MoE) (laguna-xs-2.1:q8_0).

Runtimes available for this hardware: Ollama, LM Studio, llama.cpp, MLX.

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#ModelQuantMemory neededFitSpeedCommand
1Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B-A9B (MoE, IQ2-class)Default27.7 GBfits in fast memory~36 tok/sollama run nemotron-3.5-bolt:74b-a9b
2Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B (MoE)Q4_K_M52.4 GBfits if the Mac GPU limit is raised~58 tok/sollama run qwen3-next:80b
3Ornith-1.5 35B-A3B (MoE)Default24.8 GBfits in fast memory~55 tok/sollama run ornith-1.5:35b
4Qwen3.5 35B-A3B (MoE)Q8_040.9 GBfits in fast memory~34 tok/sollama run qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q8_0
5Qwen3.6 35B-A3B (MoE)Q8_040.9 GBfits in fast memory~34 tok/sollama run qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0
6Laguna XS 2.1 33B-A3B (MoE)Q8_037.4 GBfits in fast memory~34 tok/sollama run laguna-xs-2.1:q8_0
7GLM-4.7-Flash 30B-A3B (MoE)Q8_033.4 GBfits in fast memory~35 tok/sollama run glm-4.7-flash:q8_0
8Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B (MoE)Q8_033.4 GBfits in fast memory~32 tok/sollama run qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q8_0
9Qwen3-VL 30B-A3B (MoE)Q8_035.7 GBfits in fast memory~33 tok/sollama run qwen3-vl:30b-a3b-instruct-q8_0
10Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B (MoE)Q8_036.4 GBfits in fast memory~33 tok/sollama run nemotron-3.5-lightning:30b-a3b-q8_0
11Qwen3 30B-A3B (MoE)Q8_034.4 GBfits in fast memory~31 tok/sollama run qwen3:30b-a3b-q8_0
12LFM2.5 24B-A2B (MoE)Q8_026.2 GBfits in fast memory~52 tok/sollama run lfm2.5:24b-a2b-q8_0
13Bonsai 2 27B (ternary)Q2_010.6 GBfits in fast memory~26 tok/sollama run bonsai-2:27b
14gpt-oss 20B (MoE, MXFP4)MXFP415.1 GBfits in fast memory~45 tok/sollama run gpt-oss:20b
15Gemma 4 26B-A4B (MoE)Q8_029.6 GBfits in fast memory~26 tok/sollama run gemma4:26b-a4b-it-q8_0
16Bonsai 2 9B (ternary)Q2_04.6 GBfits in fast memory~68 tok/sollama run bonsai-2:9b
17Llama 3.3 70BQ4_K_M47.1 GBfits in fast memory~5 tok/sollama run llama3.3:70b
18DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70BQ4_K_M47.1 GBfits in fast memory~5 tok/sollama run deepseek-r1:70b
19LFM2.5 8B-A1B (MoE)Q8_09.8 GBfits in fast memory~103 tok/sollama run lfm2.5:8b-a1b-q8_0
20Mixtral 8x7B (MoE)Q5_K_M34.8 GBfits in fast memory~12 tok/sollama run mixtral:8x7b-instruct-v0.1-q5_K_M
21Mistral Small 24BQ8_026.8 GBfits in fast memory~9 tok/sollama run mistral-small:24b-instruct-2501-q8_0
22Devstral Small 2 24BQ8_027.8 GBfits in fast memory~8 tok/sollama run devstral-small-2:24b-instruct-2512-q8_0
23Qwen3 14BQ8_017.3 GBfits in fast memory~14 tok/sollama run qwen3:14b-q8_0
24DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14BQ8_017.3 GBfits in fast memory~14 tok/sollama run deepseek-r1:14b-qwen-distill-q8_0
25Phi-4 14BQ8_017.3 GBfits in fast memory~14 tok/sollama run phi4:14b-q8_0
26Ministral 3 14BQ8_016.6 GBfits in fast memory~15 tok/sollama run ministral-3:14b-instruct-2512-q8_0
27Muse Glimmer 30BQ8_033.4 GBfits in fast memory~7 tok/sollama run muse-glimmer:30b-q8_0
28Granite 4.2 30BQ8_033.1 GBfits in fast memory~7 tok/sollama run granite4.2:30b-q8_0
29Mistral Nemo 12BQ8_014.2 GBfits in fast memory~17 tok/sollama run mistral-nemo:12b-instruct-2407-q8_0
30Gemma 3 12BQ8_014.6 GBfits in fast memory~17 tok/sollama run gemma3:12b-it-q8_0
31North Mini Code 1.0 30B (MoE)Q8_034.1 GBfits in fast memory~7 tok/sollama run north-mini-code-1.0:q8_0
32Qwen3.5 27BQ8_032.3 GBfits in fast memory~7 tok/sollama run qwen3.5:27b-q8_0
33Qwen3.6 27BQ8_032.3 GBfits in fast memory~7 tok/sollama run qwen3.6:27b-q8_0
34Gemma 4 12BQ8_014.6 GBfits in fast memory~17 tok/sollama run gemma4:12b-it-q8_0
35Gemma 3 27BQ8_032.3 GBfits in fast memory~7 tok/sollama run gemma3:27b-it-q8_0
36Clef 27B (Cloudflare, decision)Q8_032.3 GBfits in fast memory~7 tok/sollama run clef:27b-q8_0
37Qwen3.8 27BQ8_032.3 GBfits in fast memory~7 tok/sollama run qwen3.8:27b-q8_0
38Qwen3 32BQ8_037.2 GBfits in fast memory~6 tok/sollama run qwen3:32b-q8_0
39DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32BQ8_037.2 GBfits in fast memory~6 tok/sollama run deepseek-r1:32b-qwen-distill-q8_0
40Gemma 4 31BQ8_036.5 GBfits in fast memory~6 tok/sollama run gemma4:31b-it-q8_0
41Qwen3.5 9BQ8_011.4 GBfits in fast memory~22 tok/sollama run qwen3.5:9b-q8_0
42Qwen3-VL 32BQ8_038.6 GBfits in fast memory~6 tok/sollama run qwen3-vl:32b-instruct-q8_0
43Llama 3.2 Vision 11BQ8_013.5 GBfits in fast memory~18 tok/sollama run llama3.2-vision:11b-instruct-q8_0
44Ornith-1.5 9BDefault8 GBfits in fast memory~33 tok/sollama run ornith-1.5:9b
45Nimble v3 9B (Bespoke Labs, decision)Q8_010.6 GBfits in fast memory~23 tok/sollama run nimble-v3:9b-q8_0
46Granite 4.2 8BQ8_010.3 GBfits in fast memory~23 tok/sollama run granite4.2:8b-q8_0
47Ministral 3 8BQ8_011.3 GBfits in fast memory~22 tok/sollama run ministral-3:8b-instruct-2512-q8_0
48Qwen3-VL 8BQ8_011.2 GBfits in fast memory~22 tok/sollama run qwen3-vl:8b-instruct-q8_0
49Qwen3 8BQ8_09.9 GBfits in fast memory~25 tok/sollama run qwen3:8b-q8_0
50DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8BQ8_09.9 GBfits in fast memory~25 tok/sollama run deepseek-r1:8b-0528-qwen3-q8_0
51DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7BQ8_09.1 GBfits in fast memory~27 tok/sollama run deepseek-r1:7b-qwen-distill-q8_0
52Qwen 2.5 VL 7BQ8_010.8 GBfits in fast memory~23 tok/sollama run qwen2.5vl:7b-q8_0
53MiniCPM-V 2.6 8BQ8_010.5 GBfits in fast memory~24 tok/sollama run minicpm-v:8b-2.6-q8_0
54Gemma 4 E4B (effective 4.5B)Q8_010.3 GBfits in fast memory~24 tok/sollama run gemma4:e4b-it-q8_0
55Clef-Flash 9B (Cloudflare, decision)Q8_012.4 GBfits in fast memory~20 tok/sollama run clef-flash:9b-q8_0
56Gemma 3n E4B (on-device)Q8_010.5 GBfits in fast memory~23 tok/sollama run gemma3n:e4b-it-q8_0
57Qwen3.5 4BQ8_06.4 GBfits in fast memory~42 tok/sollama run qwen3.5:4b-q8_0
58Gemma 4 E2B (effective 2.3B)Q8_07.2 GBfits in fast memory~36 tok/sollama run gemma4:e2b-it-q8_0
59Phi-4 Mini 3.8BQ8_04.9 GBfits in fast memory~53 tok/sollama run phi4-mini:3.8b-q8_0
60Qwen3 4BQ8_05.2 GBfits in fast memory~50 tok/sollama run qwen3:4b-q8_0
61Granite 4.2 3BQ8_04.7 GBfits in fast memory~56 tok/sollama run granite4.2:3b-q8_0
62Qwen3-VL 4BQ8_06.3 GBfits in fast memory~43 tok/sollama run qwen3-vl:4b-instruct-q8_0
63DeepSeek Coder V2 Lite 16B (MoE)Q8_018 GBfits in fast memory~42 tok/sollama run deepseek-coder-v2:16b-lite-instruct-q8_0
64Gemma 3 4BQ8_06.2 GBfits in fast memory~44 tok/sollama run gemma3:4b-it-q8_0
65Gemma 3n E2B (on-device)Q8_07.8 GBfits in fast memory~32 tok/sollama run gemma3n:e2b-it-q8_0
66Bonsai 2 4B (ternary)Q2_02.8 GBfits in fast memory~137 tok/sollama run bonsai-2:4b
67tev1 4B (Together AI, decision)Q8_05.4 GBfits in fast memory~47 tok/sollama run tev1:4b-q8_0
68Ministral 3 3BQ8_05.6 GBfits in fast memory~49 tok/sollama run ministral-3:3b-instruct-2512-q8_0
69Llama 3.2 3BQ8_04.2 GBfits in fast memory~64 tok/sollama run llama3.2:3b-instruct-q8_0
70Qwen3.5 2BQ8_03.8 GBfits in fast memory~81 tok/sollama run qwen3.5:2b-q8_0
71Qwen3-VL 2BQ8_03.8 GBfits in fast memory~81 tok/sollama run qwen3-vl:2b-instruct-q8_0
72Qwen3 1.7BQ8_02.9 GBfits in fast memory~99 tok/sollama run qwen3:1.7b-q8_0
73DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5BQ8_02.6 GBfits in fast memory~115 tok/sollama run deepseek-r1:1.5b-qwen-distill-q8_0
74SmolLM2 1.7BQ8_02.5 GBfits in fast memory~121 tok/sollama run smollm2:1.7b
75Bonsai 2 2B (ternary)Q2_02 GBfits in fast memory~240 tok/sollama run bonsai-2:2b
76GLM-OCR 0.9BBF163.7 GBfits in fast memory~81 tok/sollama run glm-ocr:latest
77Qwen 2.5 14BQ8_017.3 GBfits in fast memory~14 tok/sollama run qwen2.5:14b-instruct-q8_0
78Qwen 2.5 Coder 14BQ8_017.3 GBfits in fast memory~14 tok/sollama run qwen2.5-coder:14b-instruct-q8_0
79MiniCPM-V 4.6 1BQ8_02.9 GBfits in fast memory~115 tok/sollama run minicpm-v4.6:q8_0
80Qwen 2.5 72BQ4_K_M51.1 GBfits if the Mac GPU limit is raised~5 tok/sollama run qwen2.5:72b
81Llama 3.2 1BQ8_02 GBfits in fast memory~168 tok/sollama run llama3.2:1b
82Qwen 2.5 32BQ8_037.2 GBfits in fast memory~6 tok/sollama run qwen2.5:32b-instruct-q8_0
83Qwen 2.5 Coder 32BQ8_037.2 GBfits in fast memory~6 tok/sollama run qwen2.5-coder:32b-instruct-q8_0
84LFM2.5 1.2B ThinkingQ8_01.9 GBfits in fast memory~182 tok/sollama run lfm2.5-thinking:1.2b-q8_0
85Llama 3.1 8BQ8_09.5 GBfits in fast memory~26 tok/sollama run llama3.1:8b-instruct-q8_0
86Qwen 2.5 7BQ8_09.1 GBfits in fast memory~27 tok/sollama run qwen2.5:7b-instruct-q8_0
87Qwen 2.5 Coder 7BQ8_09.1 GBfits in fast memory~27 tok/sollama run qwen2.5-coder:7b-instruct-q8_0
88Gemma 3 1BQ8_01.8 GBfits in fast memory~199 tok/sollama run gemma3:1b-it-q8_0
89Mistral 7B v0.3Q8_08.7 GBfits in fast memory~28 tok/sollama run mistral:7b-instruct-q8_0
90LLaVA 1.6 7BQ8_09.1 GBfits in fast memory~28 tok/sollama run llava:7b-v1.6-vicuna-q8_0
91Code Llama 7BQ8_08.1 GBfits in fast memory~30 tok/sollama run codellama:7b-instruct-q8_0
92Qwen3.5 0.8BQ8_02 GBfits in fast memory~218 tok/sollama run qwen3.5:0.8b-q8_0
93Qwen3 0.6BQ8_01.5 GBfits in fast memory~263 tok/sollama run qwen3:0.6b-q8_0
94Qwen 2.5 3BQ8_04.1 GBfits in fast memory~66 tok/sollama run qwen2.5:3b-instruct-q8_0
95SmolLM2 360MFP161.3 GBfits in fast memory~299 tok/sollama run smollm2:360m
96SmolLM2 135MFP160.9 GBfits in fast memory~809 tok/sollama run smollm2:135m
97Qwen 2.5 Coder 1.5BQ8_02.3 GBfits in fast memory~137 tok/sollama run qwen2.5-coder:1.5b-instruct-q8_0

Estimates, not benchmarks. Model sizes are ollama.com download sizes; memory needed adds headroom for ~8k tokens of context; speeds are rough figures from memory bandwidth. Data updated 2026-10-18.

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