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 64k context. Estimates, not measurements.

ModelQuantFitsMemoryMax contextDecode @64kPrefillGood for
Qwen 3.8 27B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits32.2 GB256k

5tok/sest.

47 tok/s–
Qwen 3.5 122B-A10B

Alibaba Qwen

UD-Q2_K_XLfits41.6 GB256k

21tok/sest.

98 tok/schat, coding
Qwen 3.6 27B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits31.7 GB256k

5tok/sest.

47 tok/s–
Qwen3 Coder Next

Alibaba Qwen

Q4_K_Mfits47.7 GB72k116k with q8 cache

26tok/sest.

228 tok/schat, coding
Gemma 4 31B

Google

Q8_0fits37.2 GB193k256k with q8 cache

5tok/sest.

43 tok/s–
Mistral Small 4 119B

Mistral AI

UD-Q2_K_XLfits39.8 GB357k568k with q8 cache

27tok/sest.

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

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits36.7 GB256k

24tok/sest.

284 tok/schat, coding
Qwen 3.5 27B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits31.7 GB256k

5tok/sest.

47 tok/s–
Gemma 4 26B-A4B

Google

Q8_0fits27.4 GB256k

19tok/sest.

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

Alibaba Qwen

Q4_K_Mfits47.7 GB73k117k with q8 cache

31tok/sest.

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

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits36.7 GB256k

24tok/sest.

284 tok/schat, coding
GLM 4.7 Flash

Z.ai

Q8_0fits33.9 GB198k

12tok/sest.

141 tok/schat
Devstral Small 2 24B

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits34.3 GB148k270k with q8 cache

5tok/sest.

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

NVIDIA

UD-Q6_K_XLfits34.0 GB256k

28tok/sest.

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

Moonshot AI

Q6_Kfits39.2 GB714k973k with q8 cache

35tok/sest.

228 tok/schat, coding
gpt-oss 20B

OpenAI

MXFP4fits13.8 GB128k

26tok/sest.

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

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits37.2 GB172k256k with q8 cache

11tok/sest.

102 tok/schat
Qwen3 32B

Alibaba Qwen

Q6_Kfits42.0 GB40k

4tok/sest.

24 tok/s–
Gemma 4 12B

Google

Q8_0fits14.1 GB256k

13tok/sest.

112 tok/s–
Qwen 3.5 9B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits11.9 GB256k

15tok/sest.

137 tok/schat
Gemma 3 27B

Google

Q8_0fits33.1 GB128k

5tok/sest.

53 tok/s–
Mistral Small 3.2 24B

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits34.3 GB128k

5tok/sest.

47 tok/s–
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B

DeepSeek

Q6_Kfits42.0 GB87k128k with q8 cache

4tok/sest.

30 tok/s–
Ministral 3 14B

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits24.3 GB209k256k with q8 cache

7tok/sest.

66 tok/s–
Qwen3 14B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits25.6 GB40k

7tok/sest.

57 tok/s–
DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B

DeepSeek

Q8_0fits18.1 GB128k

10tok/sest.

91 tok/schat
Qwen3 8B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits18.1 GB40k

10tok/sest.

91 tok/schat
Phi-4 14B

Microsoft

Q8_0fits28.0 GB16k

6tok/sest.

58 tok/s–
Qwen 3.5 4B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits7.2 GB256k

27tok/sest.

237 tok/schat, coding
Ministral 3 8B

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits17.9 GB256k

10tok/sest.

90 tok/schat
Granite 4.2 8B

IBM

Q8_0fits19.7 GB128k

9tok/sest.

83 tok/schat
Gemma 4 E4B

Google

Q8_0fits10.4 GB128k

18tok/sest.

179 tok/schat
LFM2.5 8B-A1B

Liquid AI

Q8_0fits12.4 GB125k

25tok/sest.

383 tok/schat, coding
Llama 3.1 8B

Meta

Q6_Kfits15.1 GB128k

12tok/sest.

97 tok/schat
Qwen2.5 0.5B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits2.2 GB32k

133tok/sest.

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

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits2.5 GB256k

109tok/sest.

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

Alibaba Qwen

Q5_K_Mfits3.1 GB256k

79tok/sest.

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

DeepSeek

Q8_0fits4.5 GB128k

47tok/sest.

352 tok/schat, coding
MiniCPM5 2B

openbmb

Q8_0fits6.1 GB128k

32tok/sest.

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

JetBrains

Q8_0fits13.9 GB128k

29tok/sest.

355 tok/schat, coding
LFM2.5 2.6B

Liquid AI

Q8_0fits7.4 GB128k

26tok/sest.

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

Liquid AI

Q8_0fits7.4 GB32k

26tok/sest.

226 tok/schat, coding
Kimi VL A3B

Moonshot AI

mlx-8bitfits19.5 GB128k

20tok/sest.

244 tok/schat, coding
granite vision 4.1 4b

IBM

Q8_0fits9.3 GB128k

20tok/sest.

151 tok/schat, coding
granite 4.2 3b

IBM

Q8_0fits9.6 GB128k

19tok/sest.

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

DeepSeek

Q8_0fits12.0 GB128k

15tok/sest.

114 tok/schat
LFM2.5 24B A2B

Liquid AI

Q8_0fits29.7 GB128k

14tok/sest.

219 tok/schat, coding
GLM 4.6V Flash

Z.ai

Q8_0fits12.8 GB128k

14tok/sest.

77 tok/schat
GLM 4.1V 9B Thinking

Z.ai

mlx-8bitfits14.4 GB64k

12tok/sest.

77 tok/s–
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B

DeepSeek

Q8_0fits16.9 GB128k

10tok/sest.

97 tok/schat
Ministral 3 8B Reasoning 2512

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits17.9 GB256k

10tok/sest.

90 tok/schat
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B

DeepSeek

Q8_0fits27.6 GB128k

6tok/sest.

52 tok/s–
Devstral Small 2507

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits34.3 GB128k

5tok/sest.

47 tok/s–
Magistral Small 2506

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits34.3 GB40k

5tok/sest.

47 tok/s–
Magistral Small 2507

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits34.3 GB40k

5tok/sest.

47 tok/s–
Magistral Small 2509

Mistral AI

Q8_0fits34.3 GB128k

5tok/sest.

47 tok/s–
granite 4.2 30b

IBM

Q8_0fits46.0 GB72k128k with q8 cache

4tok/sest.

35 tok/s–
DeepSeek V4 Flash

DeepSeek

UD-Q2_K_XLwon't run96.5 GB––––
GLM 5.3 Flash

Z.ai

UD-Q2_K_XLwon't run103.0 GB––––
Qwen 3.8 Flash Next

Alibaba Qwen

UD-Q2_K_XLwon't run76.0 GB––––
MiniMax M2.7

MiniMax

UD-Q2_K_XLwon't run86.6 GB––––
Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12B

NVIDIA

UD-Q2_K_XLwon't run52.5 GB––––
gpt-oss 120B

OpenAI

Q4_K_Mwon't run61.7 GB––––
GLM 4.5 Air

Z.ai

Q2_Kwon't run54.7 GB27k51k with q8 cache–––
Llama 3.3 70B

Meta

Q4_K_Mwon't run60.6 GB24k45k with q8 cache–––
DeepSeek R1

DeepSeek

Q4_K_Mwon't run381.9 GB––––
DeepSeek R1 0528

DeepSeek

Q4_K_Mwon't run382.4 GB––––
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B

DeepSeek

Q4_K_Mwon't run60.6 GB24k45k with q8 cache–––
DeepSeek V3 0324

DeepSeek

Q4_K_Mwon't run381.9 GB––––
DeepSeek V3.1

DeepSeek

Q4_K_Mwon't run382.8 GB––––
DeepSeek V3.2

DeepSeek

Q4_K_Mwon't run382.8 GB––––
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731

DeepSeek

MXFP4won't run152.0 GB––––
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp

DeepSeek

MXFP4won't run160.8 GB––––
Devstral 2 123B Instruct 2512

Mistral AI

Q8_0won't run146.7 GB––––
GLM 4.5V

Z.ai

Q4_K_Mwon't run71.7 GB––––
GLM 4.6V

Z.ai

Q4_K_Mwon't run78.1 GB––––
GLM 4.7

Z.ai

Q4_K_Mwon't run225.6 GB––––
GLM 5.1

Z.ai

MXFP4won't run426.4 GB––––
GLM 5.2

Z.ai

UD-Q4_K_Mwon't run440.3 GB––––
GLM 5.3

Z.ai

Q8_0won't run752.8 GB––––
Kimi K2

Moonshot AI

Q4_K_Mwon't run583.4 GB––––
Kimi K2 Instruct 0905

Moonshot AI

Q4_K_Mwon't run583.8 GB––––
Kimi K2 Thinking

Moonshot AI

Q4_K_Mwon't run583.8 GB––––
Kimi K2.5

Moonshot AI

Q4_K_Mwon't run583.8 GB––––
MiniMax M2

MiniMax

Q4_K_Mwon't run145.3 GB––––
MiniMax M2.1

MiniMax

Q4_K_Mwon't run145.3 GB––––
MiniMax M2.5

MiniMax

MXFP4won't run131.7 GB––––
MiniMax M3

MiniMax

UD-Q4_K_Mwon't run255.2 GB––––
Mistral Medium 3.5 128B

Mistral AI

Q4_K_Mwon't run92.7 GB––––