Mac mini M4 32GB

32 GB unified · 120 GB/s

Prices

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What it runs

Every model in the catalogue, with the best quant for this hardware. Estimates, not measurements.

ModelQuantFitsMemoryMax contextDecode @8kPrefillGood for
Qwen 3.8 27B

Alibaba Qwen

UD-Q5_K_Mfits19.7 GB31k54k with q8 cache

4tok/sest.

26 tok/s–
Qwen 3.6 27B

Alibaba Qwen

Q5_K_Mfits19.5 GB34k61k with q8 cache

4tok/sest.

26 tok/s–
Gemma 4 31B

Google

Q4_K_Mfits19.1 GB33k67k with q8 cache

4tok/sest.

23 tok/s–
Qwen 3.5 27B

Alibaba Qwen

Q5_K_Mfits19.5 GB33k58k with q8 cache

4tok/sest.

26 tok/s–
Gemma 4 26B-A4B

Google

UD-Q5_K_Mfits20.7 GB31k55k with q8 cache

13tok/sest.

172 tok/s–
GLM 4.7 Flash

Z.ai

Q5_K_Mfits21.0 GB13k22k with q8 cache

12tok/sest.

126 tok/s–
Devstral Small 2 24B

Mistral AI

Q6_Kfits19.9 GB16k30k with q8 cache

4tok/sest.

30 tok/s–
Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B

Alibaba Qwen

Q4_K_Mfits18.7 GB34k61k with q8 cache

18tok/sest.

163 tok/schat
gpt-oss 20B

OpenAI

MXFP4fits12.1 GB128k

18tok/sest.

163 tok/schat
Qwen3 32B

Alibaba Qwen

Q4_K_Mfits21.1 GB8k16k with q8 cache

4tok/sest.

20 tok/s–
Gemma 4 12B

Google

Q8_0fits12.9 GB256k

6tok/sest.

60 tok/s–
Qwen 3.5 9B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits9.8 GB256k

8tok/sest.

76 tok/s–
Gemma 3 27B

Google

Q5_K_Mfits19.6 GB27k53k with q8 cache

4tok/sest.

27 tok/s–
Mistral Small 3.2 24B

Mistral AI

Q6_Kfits19.9 GB16k30k with q8 cache

4tok/sest.

30 tok/s–
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B

DeepSeek

Q4_K_Mfits21.1 GB8k15k with q8 cache

4tok/sest.

21 tok/s–
Ministral 3 14B

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits15.3 GB45k82k with q8 cache

5tok/sest.

49 tok/s–
Qwen3 14B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits16.5 GB37k40k with q8 cache

5tok/sest.

46 tok/s–
DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B

DeepSeek

Q8_0fits9.9 GB85k128k with q8 cache

8tok/sest.

80 tok/s–
Qwen3 8B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits9.9 GB40k

8tok/sest.

80 tok/s–
Phi-4 14B

Microsoft

Q8_0fits16.7 GB16k

5tok/sest.

46 tok/s–
Qwen 3.5 4B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits5.1 GB256k

16tok/sest.

153 tok/schat
Ministral 3 8B

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits10.1 GB88k160k with q8 cache

8tok/sest.

75 tok/s–
Granite 4.2 8B

IBM

Q8_0fits10.6 GB74k128k with q8 cache

7tok/sest.

74 tok/s–
Gemma 4 E4B

Google

Q8_0fits8.5 GB128k

9tok/sest.

92 tok/s–
LFM2.5 8B-A1B

Liquid AI

Q8_0fits9.4 GB125k

32tok/sest.

536 tok/schat
Llama 3.1 8B

Meta

Q6_Kfits7.8 GB111k128k with q8 cache

10tok/sest.

83 tok/s–
DeepSeek V4 Flash

DeepSeek

UD-Q2_K_XLwon't run91.5 GB––––
GLM 5.3 Flash

Z.ai

UD-Q2_K_XLwon't run102.1 GB––––
Qwen 3.8 Flash Next

Alibaba Qwen

UD-Q2_K_XLwon't run74.4 GB––––
MiniMax M2.7

MiniMax

UD-Q2_K_XLwon't run72.7 GB––––
Qwen 3.5 122B-A10B

Alibaba Qwen

UD-Q2_K_XLwon't run39.9 GB––––
Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12B

NVIDIA

UD-Q2_K_XLwon't run51.8 GB––––
Qwen3 Coder Next

Alibaba Qwen

Q4_K_Mwon't run46.1 GB––––
gpt-oss 120B

OpenAI

MXFP4won't run60.0 GB––––
Mistral Small 4 119B

Mistral AI

UD-Q2_K_XLwon't run38.3 GB––––
Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B

Alibaba Qwen

UD-Q4_K_Mwon't run21.5 GB1k–––
GLM 4.5 Air

Z.ai

Q2_Kwon't run44.3 GB––––
Qwen 3.5 35B-A3B

Alibaba Qwen

Q4_K_Mwon't run21.4 GB5k8k with q8 cache–––
Qwen3 Next 80B-A3B

Alibaba Qwen

Q4_K_Mwon't run46.1 GB––––
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B

NVIDIA

UD-Q6_K_XLwon't run33.3 GB––––
Kimi Linear 48B-A3B

Moonshot AI

Q4_K_Mwon't run28.7 GB––––
Llama 3.3 70B

Meta

Q4_K_Mwon't run42.7 GB––––

Specifications

From the manufacturer's published specifications; sources are linked where we have them.

Chip
Apple M4 (10-core GPU)
Memory bus
128-bit
Memory bandwidth
120 GB/s
FP16 compute
3.76 TFLOPS
Software
Metal
Unified memory
32 GB
GPU can use by default
21.3 GB
GPU can use, tuned
24 GB
Operating system
macos
Processor
M4 10-core
Storage
512 GB

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