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 128k context. Estimates, not measurements.

ModelQuantFitsMemoryMax contextDecode @128kPrefillGood for
Qwen 3.8 27B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits36.5 GB256k

5tok/sest.

40 tok/s–
Qwen 3.5 122B-A10B

Alibaba Qwen

UD-Q2_K_XLfits43.5 GB256k

16tok/sest.

71 tok/schat, coding
Qwen 3.6 27B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits36.1 GB256k

5tok/sest.

40 tok/s–
Gemma 4 31B

Google

Q8_0fits42.5 GB193k256k with q8 cache

4tok/sest.

38 tok/s–
Mistral Small 4 119B

Mistral AI

UD-Q2_K_XLfits41.6 GB357k568k with q8 cache

20tok/sest.

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

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits38.3 GB256k

18tok/sest.

193 tok/schat, coding
Qwen 3.5 27B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits36.1 GB256k

5tok/sest.

40 tok/s–
Gemma 4 26B-A4B

Google

Q8_0fits29.1 GB256k

15tok/sest.

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

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits38.3 GB256k

18tok/sest.

193 tok/schat, coding
GLM 4.7 Flash

Z.ai

Q8_0fits37.6 GB198k

9tok/sest.

91 tok/schat
Devstral Small 2 24B

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits44.7 GB148k270k with q8 cache

4tok/sest.

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

NVIDIA

UD-Q6_K_XLfits34.7 GB256k

26tok/sest.

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

Moonshot AI

Q6_Kfits40.1 GB714k973k with q8 cache

30tok/sest.

145 tok/schat, coding
gpt-oss 20B

OpenAI

MXFP4fits15.6 GB128k

19tok/sest.

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

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits43.6 GB172k256k with q8 cache

7tok/sest.

56 tok/schat
Gemma 4 12B

Google

Q8_0fits15.5 GB256k

12tok/sest.

97 tok/s–
Qwen 3.5 9B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits14.3 GB256k

13tok/sest.

116 tok/schat
Gemma 3 27B

Google

Q8_0fits38.5 GB128k

4tok/sest.

49 tok/s–
Mistral Small 3.2 24B

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits44.7 GB128k

4tok/sest.

36 tok/s–
Ministral 3 14B

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits34.7 GB209k256k with q8 cache

5tok/sest.

46 tok/s–
Qwen3 14B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits36.0 GB40k

5tok/sest.

39 tok/s–
DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B

DeepSeek

Q8_0fits27.5 GB128k

6tok/sest.

59 tok/schat
Qwen3 8B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits27.5 GB40k

6tok/sest.

59 tok/schat
Phi-4 14B

Microsoft

Q8_0fits40.9 GB16k

4tok/sest.

39 tok/s–
Qwen 3.5 4B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits9.6 GB256k

20tok/sest.

181 tok/schat, coding
Ministral 3 8B

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits26.8 GB256k

7tok/sest.

60 tok/schat
Granite 4.2 8B

IBM

Q8_0fits30.1 GB128k

6tok/sest.

53 tok/schat
Gemma 4 E4B

Google

Q8_0fits12.5 GB128k

15tok/sest.

162 tok/schat
LFM2.5 8B-A1B

Liquid AI

Q8_0fits15.7 GB125k

14tok/sest.

217 tok/schat, coding
Llama 3.1 8B

Meta

Q6_Kfits23.5 GB128k

8tok/sest.

64 tok/schat
Qwen2.5 0.5B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits3.3 GB32k

83tok/sest.

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

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits3.6 GB256k

73tok/sest.

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

Alibaba Qwen

Q5_K_Mfits4.2 GB256k

58tok/sest.

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

DeepSeek

Q8_0fits6.6 GB128k

31tok/sest.

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

JetBrains

Q8_0fits15.2 GB128k

23tok/sest.

251 tok/schat, coding
MiniCPM5 2B

openbmb

Q8_0fits9.1 GB128k

21tok/sest.

117 tok/schat, coding
LFM2.5 2.6B

Liquid AI

Q8_0fits11.5 GB128k

16tok/sest.

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

Liquid AI

Q8_0fits11.5 GB32k

16tok/sest.

145 tok/schat, coding
Kimi VL A3B

Moonshot AI

mlx-8bitfits21.7 GB128k

15tok/sest.

158 tok/schat, coding
granite vision 4.1 4b

IBM

Q8_0fits14.7 GB128k

12tok/sest.

93 tok/schat, coding
granite 4.2 3b

IBM

Q8_0fits15.0 GB128k

12tok/sest.

95 tok/schat, coding
GLM 4.6V Flash

Z.ai

Q8_0fits15.7 GB128k

12tok/sest.

51 tok/schat
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B

DeepSeek

Q8_0fits15.9 GB128k

11tok/sest.

78 tok/schat
GLM 4.1V 9B Thinking

Z.ai

mlx-8bitfits17.3 GB64k

10tok/sest.

51 tok/s–
LFM2.5 24B A2B

Liquid AI

Q8_0fits35.1 GB128k

8tok/sest.

127 tok/schat, coding
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B

DeepSeek

Q8_0fits25.3 GB128k

7tok/sest.

64 tok/schat
Ministral 3 8B Reasoning 2512

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits26.8 GB256k

7tok/sest.

60 tok/schat
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B

DeepSeek

Q8_0fits40.0 GB128k

4tok/sest.

34 tok/s–
Devstral Small 2507

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits44.7 GB128k

4tok/sest.

36 tok/s–
Magistral Small 2506

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits44.7 GB40k

4tok/sest.

36 tok/s–
Magistral Small 2507

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits44.7 GB40k

4tok/sest.

36 tok/s–
Magistral Small 2509

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits44.7 GB128k

4tok/sest.

36 tok/s–
DeepSeek V4 Flash

DeepSeek

UD-Q2_K_XLwon't run102.3 GB––––
GLM 5.3 Flash

Z.ai

UD-Q2_K_XLwon't run104.1 GB––––
Qwen 3.8 Flash Next

Alibaba Qwen

UD-Q2_K_XLwon't run77.9 GB––––
MiniMax M2.7

MiniMax

UD-Q2_K_XLwon't run102.5 GB––––
Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12B

NVIDIA

UD-Q2_K_XLwon't run53.4 GB––––
Qwen3 Coder Next

Alibaba Qwen

Q4_K_Mwon't run49.6 GB72k116k with q8 cache–––
gpt-oss 120B

OpenAI

Q4_K_Mwon't run64.3 GB––––
GLM 4.5 Air

Z.ai

Q2_Kwon't run66.6 GB27k51k with q8 cache–––
Qwen3 Next 80B-A3B

Alibaba Qwen

Q4_K_Mwon't run49.6 GB73k117k with q8 cache–––
Qwen3 32B

Alibaba Qwen

Q4_K_Mwon't run51.8 GB40k–––
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B

DeepSeek

Q4_K_Mwon't run51.8 GB112k128k with q8 cache–––
Llama 3.3 70B

Meta

Q4_K_Mwon't run81.0 GB24k45k with q8 cache–––
DeepSeek R1

DeepSeek

Q4_K_Mwon't run386.6 GB––––
DeepSeek R1 0528

DeepSeek

Q4_K_Mwon't run387.1 GB––––
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B

DeepSeek

Q4_K_Mwon't run81.0 GB24k45k with q8 cache–––
DeepSeek V3 0324

DeepSeek

Q4_K_Mwon't run386.6 GB––––
DeepSeek V3.1

DeepSeek

Q4_K_Mwon't run387.5 GB––––
DeepSeek V3.2

DeepSeek

Q4_K_Mwon't run387.5 GB––––
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731

DeepSeek

MXFP4won't run157.7 GB––––
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp

DeepSeek

MXFP4won't run166.5 GB––––
Devstral 2 123B Instruct 2512

Mistral AI

Q8_0won't run169.1 GB––––
GLM 4.5V

Z.ai

Q4_K_Mwon't run83.6 GB––––
GLM 4.6V

Z.ai

Q4_K_Mwon't run90.0 GB––––
GLM 4.7

Z.ai

Q4_K_Mwon't run248.9 GB––––
GLM 5.1

Z.ai

MXFP4won't run432.3 GB––––
GLM 5.2

Z.ai

UD-Q4_K_Mwon't run446.2 GB––––
GLM 5.3

Z.ai

Q8_0won't run758.6 GB––––
Kimi K2

Moonshot AI

Q4_K_Mwon't run588.1 GB––––
Kimi K2 Instruct 0905

Moonshot AI

Q4_K_Mwon't run588.5 GB––––
Kimi K2 Thinking

Moonshot AI

Q4_K_Mwon't run588.5 GB––––
Kimi K2.5

Moonshot AI

Q4_K_Mwon't run588.5 GB––––
MiniMax M2

MiniMax

Q4_K_Mwon't run161.2 GB––––
MiniMax M2.1

MiniMax

Q4_K_Mwon't run161.2 GB––––
MiniMax M2.5

MiniMax

MXFP4won't run147.6 GB––––
MiniMax M3

MiniMax

UD-Q4_K_Mwon't run263.1 GB––––
Mistral Medium 3.5 128B

Mistral AI

Q4_K_Mwon't run115.1 GB––––
granite 4.2 30b

IBM

Q4_K_Mwon't run50.1 GB119k128k with q8 cache–––