Mac mini M4 Pro 64GB

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MachineMac mini M4 Pro 64GB

64 GB unified · 273 GB/s

$2,900eBayBuy
Total$2,900

What this build runs

The most precise quant that fits, at 32k context. Estimates, not measurements.

ModelQuantFitsMemoryMax contextDecode @32kPrefillGood for
Qwen 3.8 27B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits30.0 GB256k

6tok/sest.

52 tok/s–
Qwen 3.5 122B-A10B

Alibaba Qwen

UD-Q2_K_XLfits40.6 GB256k

25tok/sest.

122 tok/schat, coding
Qwen 3.6 27B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits29.6 GB256k

6tok/sest.

52 tok/s–
Qwen3 Coder Next

Alibaba Qwen

Q4_K_Mfits46.8 GB72k116k with q8 cache

33tok/sest.

295 tok/schat, coding
Gemma 4 31B

Google

Q8_0fits34.5 GB193k256k with q8 cache

5tok/sest.

46 tok/s–
Mistral Small 4 119B

Mistral AI

UD-Q2_K_XLfits38.9 GB357k568k with q8 cache

34tok/sest.

136 tok/schat, coding
Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits35.8 GB256k

28tok/sest.

372 tok/schat, coding
Qwen 3.5 27B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits29.6 GB256k

6tok/sest.

52 tok/s–
Gemma 4 26B-A4B

Google

Q8_0fits26.6 GB256k

21tok/sest.

331 tok/schat, coding
Qwen3 Next 80B-A3B

Alibaba Qwen

Q4_K_Mfits46.8 GB73k117k with q8 cache

40tok/sest.

351 tok/schat, coding
Qwen 3.5 35B-A3B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits35.8 GB256k

28tok/sest.

372 tok/schat, coding
GLM 4.7 Flash

Z.ai

Q8_0fits32.1 GB198k

15tok/sest.

194 tok/schat
Devstral Small 2 24B

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits29.1 GB148k270k with q8 cache

6tok/sest.

55 tok/s–
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B

NVIDIA

UD-Q6_K_XLfits33.6 GB256k

30tok/sest.

425 tok/schat, coding
Kimi Linear 48B-A3B

Moonshot AI

Q6_Kfits38.8 GB714k973k with q8 cache

38tok/sest.

321 tok/schat, coding
gpt-oss 20B

OpenAI

MXFP4fits12.8 GB128k

33tok/sest.

278 tok/schat, coding
Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits34.0 GB172k256k with q8 cache

17tok/sest.

171 tok/schat
Qwen3 32B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits41.2 GB40k

4tok/sest.

32 tok/s–
Gemma 4 12B

Google

Q8_0fits13.4 GB256k

13tok/sest.

121 tok/s–
Qwen 3.5 9B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits10.7 GB256k

17tok/sest.

151 tok/schat
Mistral Small 3.2 24B

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits29.1 GB128k

6tok/sest.

55 tok/s–
Gemma 3 27B

Google

Q8_0fits30.4 GB128k

6tok/sest.

55 tok/s–
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B

DeepSeek

Q8_0fits41.2 GB58k107k with q8 cache

4tok/sest.

37 tok/s–
Ministral 3 14B

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits19.2 GB209k256k with q8 cache

9tok/sest.

84 tok/s–
Qwen3 14B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits20.4 GB40k

8tok/sest.

75 tok/s–
DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B

DeepSeek

Q8_0fits13.4 GB128k

13tok/sest.

124 tok/schat
Qwen3 8B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits13.4 GB40k

13tok/sest.

124 tok/schat
Phi-4 14B

Microsoft

Q8_0fits21.5 GB16k

8tok/sest.

76 tok/s–
Qwen 3.5 4B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits6.0 GB256k

32tok/sest.

282 tok/schat, coding
Ministral 3 8B

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits13.4 GB256k

13tok/sest.

120 tok/schat
Granite 4.2 8B

IBM

Q8_0fits14.5 GB128k

12tok/sest.

114 tok/schat
Gemma 4 E4B

Google

Q8_0fits9.3 GB128k

19tok/sest.

189 tok/schat
LFM2.5 8B-A1B

Liquid AI

Q8_0fits10.7 GB125k

40tok/sest.

619 tok/schat, coding
Llama 3.1 8B

Meta

Q6_Kfits10.9 GB128k

16tok/sest.

131 tok/schat
Qwen2.5 0.5B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits1.7 GB32k

190tok/sest.

1348 tok/schat, coding, long documents
Qwen3.5 0.8B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits1.9 GB256k

144tok/sest.

1266 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
Qwen3.5 2B

Alibaba Qwen

Q5_K_Mfits2.5 GB256k

96tok/sest.

604 tok/schat, coding, agents, long documents
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B

DeepSeek

Q8_0fits3.4 GB128k

63tok/sest.

507 tok/schat, coding
MiniCPM5 2B

openbmb

Q8_0fits4.6 GB128k

43tok/sest.

303 tok/schat, coding
LFM2.5 2.6B

Liquid AI

Q8_0fits5.3 GB128k

36tok/sest.

343 tok/schat, coding
LFM2.5 VL 3B

Liquid AI

Q8_0fits5.3 GB32k

36tok/sest.

315 tok/schat, coding
Mellum2.1 12B A2.5B Thinking

JetBrains

Q8_0fits13.3 GB128k

34tok/sest.

447 tok/schat, coding
granite vision 4.1 4b

IBM

Q8_0fits6.7 GB128k

28tok/sest.

220 tok/schat, coding
granite 4.2 3b

IBM

Q8_0fits6.9 GB128k

27tok/sest.

230 tok/schat, coding
Kimi VL A3B

Moonshot AI

mlx-8bitfits18.3 GB128k

25tok/sest.

336 tok/schat, coding
LFM2.5 24B A2B

Liquid AI

Q8_0fits27.0 GB128k

22tok/sest.

345 tok/schat, coding
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B

DeepSeek

Q8_0fits10.1 GB128k

18tok/sest.

148 tok/schat
GLM 4.6V Flash

Z.ai

Q8_0fits11.4 GB128k

16tok/sest.

103 tok/schat
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B

DeepSeek

Q8_0fits12.7 GB128k

14tok/sest.

131 tok/schat
GLM 4.1V 9B Thinking

Z.ai

mlx-8bitfits13.0 GB64k

14tok/sest.

103 tok/s–
Ministral 3 8B Reasoning 2512

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits13.4 GB256k

13tok/sest.

120 tok/schat
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B

DeepSeek

Q8_0fits21.4 GB128k

8tok/sest.

71 tok/s–
Devstral Small 2507

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits29.1 GB128k

6tok/sest.

56 tok/s–
Magistral Small 2506

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits29.1 GB40k

6tok/sest.

56 tok/s–
Magistral Small 2507

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits29.1 GB40k

6tok/sest.

56 tok/s–
Magistral Small 2509

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits29.1 GB128k

6tok/sest.

55 tok/s–
granite 4.2 30b

IBM

Q8_0fits37.8 GB72k128k with q8 cache

5tok/sest.

43 tok/s–
DeepSeek V4 Flash

DeepSeek

UD-Q2_K_XLwon't run93.7 GB––––
GLM 5.3 Flash

Z.ai

UD-Q2_K_XLwon't run102.5 GB––––
Qwen 3.8 Flash Next

Alibaba Qwen

UD-Q2_K_XLwon't run75.1 GB––––
MiniMax M2.7

MiniMax

UD-Q2_K_XLwon't run78.7 GB––––
Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12B

NVIDIA

UD-Q2_K_XLwon't run52.1 GB––––
gpt-oss 120B

OpenAI

Q4_K_Mwon't run60.4 GB––––
GLM 4.5 Air

Z.ai

Q2_Kwon't run48.7 GB27k51k with q8 cache–––
Llama 3.3 70B

Meta

Q4_K_Mwon't run50.4 GB24k45k with q8 cache–––
DeepSeek R1

DeepSeek

Q4_K_Mwon't run379.6 GB––––
DeepSeek R1 0528

DeepSeek

Q4_K_Mwon't run380.1 GB––––
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B

DeepSeek

Q4_K_Mwon't run50.4 GB24k45k with q8 cache–––
DeepSeek V3 0324

DeepSeek

Q4_K_Mwon't run379.6 GB––––
DeepSeek V3.1

DeepSeek

Q4_K_Mwon't run380.5 GB––––
DeepSeek V3.2

DeepSeek

Q4_K_Mwon't run380.5 GB––––
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731

DeepSeek

MXFP4won't run149.1 GB––––
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp

DeepSeek

MXFP4won't run157.9 GB––––
Devstral 2 123B Instruct 2512

Mistral AI

Q8_0won't run135.5 GB––––
GLM 4.5V

Z.ai

Q4_K_Mwon't run65.8 GB––––
GLM 4.6V

Z.ai

Q4_K_Mwon't run72.1 GB––––
GLM 4.7

Z.ai

Q4_K_Mwon't run213.9 GB––––
GLM 5.1

Z.ai

MXFP4won't run423.5 GB––––
GLM 5.2

Z.ai

UD-Q4_K_Mwon't run437.4 GB––––
GLM 5.3

Z.ai

Q8_0won't run749.9 GB––––
Kimi K2

Moonshot AI

Q4_K_Mwon't run581.1 GB––––
Kimi K2 Instruct 0905

Moonshot AI

Q4_K_Mwon't run581.5 GB––––
Kimi K2 Thinking

Moonshot AI

Q4_K_Mwon't run581.5 GB––––
Kimi K2.5

Moonshot AI

Q4_K_Mwon't run581.5 GB––––
MiniMax M2

MiniMax

Q4_K_Mwon't run137.4 GB––––
MiniMax M2.1

MiniMax

Q4_K_Mwon't run137.4 GB––––
MiniMax M2.5

MiniMax

MXFP4won't run123.8 GB––––
MiniMax M3

MiniMax

UD-Q4_K_Mwon't run251.3 GB––––
Mistral Medium 3.5 128B

Mistral AI

Q4_K_Mwon't run81.5 GB––––