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Can I run Llama 4 Scout 109B (MoE) locally?

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Ollama weight files: Q4_K_M 67 GB (llama4:16x17b).

Yes on 18 machines in this list. The smallest is Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GB: Q4_K_M, about 69.3 GB, roughly 31 tokens per second, via Ollama. ollama run llama4:16x17b

Setup on DGX Spark 128GB (NVIDIA, ASUS, Dell, Lenovo, HP, MSI, Acer, Gigabyte)

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Hardware that fits

HardwareRuntimeQuantMemoryFitSpeedCommand
Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GBOllamaQ4_K_M69.3 GBfits in fast memory~31 tok/sollama run llama4:16x17b
Mac Studio M5 Ultra 96GBOllamaQ4_K_M69.3 GBfits in fast memory~46 tok/sollama run llama4:16x17b
M3 Max 128GBOllamaQ4_K_M69.3 GBfits in fast memory~15 tok/sollama run llama4:16x17b
M4 Max 128GBOllamaQ4_K_M69.3 GBfits in fast memory~21 tok/sollama run llama4:16x17b
Mac Studio M4 Max (40c GPU) 128GBOllamaQ4_K_M69.3 GBfits in fast memory~21 tok/sollama run llama4:16x17b
Mac Studio M5 Max (40c GPU) 128GBOllamaQ4_K_M69.3 GBfits in fast memory~24 tok/sollama run llama4:16x17b
DGX Spark 128GB (NVIDIA, ASUS, Dell, Lenovo, HP, MSI, Acer, Gigabyte)OllamaQ4_K_M69.3 GBfits in fast memory~15 tok/sollama run llama4:16x17b
M2 Ultra 192GBOllamaQ4_K_M69.3 GBfits in fast memory~31 tok/sollama run llama4:16x17b
2x Mac Studio M5 Max (40c GPU) 128GBllama.cppQ8_0 GGUF116.9 GBfits in fast memory~12 tok/sllama-server -hf unsloth/Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct-GGUF:Q8_0 --rpc node2:50052 -c 8192 # run rpc-server on each other node
Mac Studio M3 Ultra 256GBOllamaQ4_K_M69.3 GBfits in fast memory~31 tok/sollama run llama4:16x17b
Mac Studio M5 Ultra (64c GPU) 256GBOllamaQ4_K_M69.3 GBfits in fast memory~46 tok/sollama run llama4:16x17b
Mac Studio M5 Ultra (80c GPU) 256GBOllamaQ4_K_M69.3 GBfits in fast memory~46 tok/sollama run llama4:16x17b
2x DGX Spark 128GBllama.cppQ8_0 GGUF116.9 GBfits in fast memory~7 tok/sllama-server -hf unsloth/Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct-GGUF:Q8_0 --rpc node2:50052 -c 8192 # run rpc-server on each other node
4x Mac Studio M5 Max (40c GPU) 128GBllama.cppQ8_0 GGUF116.9 GBfits in fast memory~10 tok/sllama-server -hf unsloth/Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct-GGUF:Q8_0 --rpc node2:50052,node3:50052,node4:50052 -c 8192 # run rpc-server on each other node
2x Mac Studio M5 Ultra (80c GPU) 256GBllama.cppQ8_0 GGUF116.9 GBfits in fast memory~23 tok/sllama-server -hf unsloth/Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct-GGUF:Q8_0 --rpc node2:50052 -c 8192 # run rpc-server on each other node
Mac Studio M3 Ultra (80c GPU) 512GBOllamaQ4_K_M69.3 GBfits in fast memory~31 tok/sollama run llama4:16x17b
4x DGX Spark 128GBllama.cppQ8_0 GGUF116.9 GBfits in fast memory~7 tok/sllama-server -hf unsloth/Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct-GGUF:Q8_0 --rpc node2:50052,node3:50052,node4:50052 -c 8192 # run rpc-server on each other node
4x Mac Studio M5 Ultra (80c GPU) 256GBllama.cppQ8_0 GGUF116.9 GBfits in fast memory~20 tok/sllama-server -hf unsloth/Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct-GGUF:Q8_0 --rpc node2:50052,node3:50052,node4:50052 -c 8192 # run rpc-server on each other node

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 2026-10-16.

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