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Best local AI for Mac

Picks for Apple chip Macs with 16, 32, or 64 GB of memory.

How we picked

Macs with Apple chips share memory between the main chip and graphics. So the memory number is what matters. We keep a few GB free for the system.

16 GB Mac

Models compared
Model	Maker	Trust	Quality	RAM needed	Business	Sign-up
Mistral Nemo 12B	Mistral AI	84	Strong	11 GB	Yes	No
Gemma 3 12B	Google	58	Strong	11 GB	With limits	Yes
Gemma 4 12B	Google	84	Strong	11 GB	Yes	No
Qwen3.5 9B	Alibaba Qwen	84	Good	9 GB	Yes	No
Nemotron Nano 9B v2	NVIDIA	64	Good	9 GB	With limits	No

32 GB Mac

Models compared
Model	Maker	Trust	Quality	RAM needed	Business	Sign-up
Qwen3 32B	Alibaba Qwen	84	Very strong	26 GB	Yes	No
Olmo 3.1 32B	Ai2	100	Very strong	26 GB	Yes	No
OLMo 2 32B	Ai2	100	Very strong	26 GB	Yes	No
Granite 4.0 H Small	IBM	84	Very strong	26 GB	Yes	No
Qwen3 30B-A3B 2507	Alibaba Qwen	84	Very strong	24 GB	Yes	No

64 GB Mac

Models compared
Model	Maker	Trust	Quality	RAM needed	Business	Sign-up
Llama 3.3 70B	Meta	58	Top home tier	53 GB	With limits	Yes
Qwen3 32B	Alibaba Qwen	84	Very strong	26 GB	Yes	No
Olmo 3.1 32B	Ai2	100	Very strong	26 GB	Yes	No
OLMo 2 32B	Ai2	100	Very strong	26 GB	Yes	No
Granite 4.0 H Small	IBM	84	Very strong	26 GB	Yes	No

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