Apple Mac mini (M4) — 16GB / 1TB
A mini pc built on the Apple M4 with about 16GB of memory usable for AI — here’s what it runs and how it fits a private AI Business OS.
Configuration
- AI memory
- ~16GB unified
- Usable for models
- ~11.2GB
- System RAM
- 16GB
- Storage
- 1TB
- GPUs
- 1×
- Chip
- Apple M4
Compatible models
Open models graded for this exact configuration.
- CodeLlama 13BCodeLlama · ~13B · 16K ctx · Llama Community License
Fits at Q4_K_M (~8GB) with ~3.2GB headroom — about 1 concurrent instance.
Q4_K_M · ~8GBRuns well - Gemma 3 12BGemma 3 · ~12B · 128K ctx · Gemma Terms of Use
Fits at Q4_K_M (~8GB) with ~3.2GB headroom — about 1 concurrent instance.
Q4_K_M · ~8GBRuns well - Mistral Nemo 12BMistral · ~12B · 128K ctx · Apache-2.0
Fits at Q4_K_M (~8GB) with ~3.2GB headroom — about 1 concurrent instance.
Q4_K_M · ~8GBRuns well - Gemma 2 9BGemma · ~9B · 8K ctx · Gemma Terms of Use
Fits at Q8_0 (~10GB) with ~1.2GB headroom — about 1 concurrent instance.
Q8_0 · ~10GBRuns well - Llama 3.1 8BLlama · ~8B · 128K ctx · Llama Community License
Fits at Q8_0 (~9GB) with ~2.2GB headroom — about 1 concurrent instance.
Q8_0 · ~9GBRuns well - Qwen3 8BQwen · ~8B · 128K ctx · Apache-2.0
Fits at Q8_0 (~9GB) with ~2.2GB headroom — about 1 concurrent instance.
Q8_0 · ~9GBRuns well - Granite 3 8BGranite · ~8B · 128K ctx · Apache-2.0
Fits at Q8_0 (~9GB) with ~2.2GB headroom — about 1 concurrent instance.
Q8_0 · ~9GBRuns well - DeepSeek-R1 Distill 8BDeepSeek · ~8B · 128K ctx · MIT
Fits at Q8_0 (~9GB) with ~2.2GB headroom — about 1 concurrent instance.
Q8_0 · ~9GBRuns well
Offers
- Demo StoreDemoIn stock · checked 2026-06-23$600Demo only
- Demo MarketplaceDemoIn stock · checked 2026-06-23$620Demo only
Pricing below is illustrative demo data — there are no live or affiliate links yet. Offers are kept separate from our editorial AI scores, which they never influence.
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