Apple Mac Studio (M4 Max) — 36GB / 1TB
A desktop built on the Apple M4 Max with about 36GB of memory usable for AI — here’s what it runs and how it fits a private AI Business OS.
Configuration
- AI memory
- ~36GB unified
- Usable for models
- ~25.2GB
- System RAM
- 36GB
- Storage
- 1TB
- GPUs
- 1×
- Chip
- Apple M4 Max
Compatible models
Open models graded for this exact configuration.
- Gemma 2 27BGemma · ~27B · 8K ctx · Gemma Terms of Use
Fits at Q4_K_M (~17GB) with ~8.2GB headroom — about 1 concurrent instance.
Q4_K_M · ~17GBRuns well - Gemma 3 27BGemma 3 · ~27B · 128K ctx · Gemma Terms of Use
Fits at Q4_K_M (~17GB) with ~8.2GB headroom — about 1 concurrent instance.
Q4_K_M · ~17GBRuns well - Mistral Small 24BMistral · ~24B · 32K ctx · Apache-2.0
Fits at Q8_0 (~25GB) with ~0.2GB headroom — about 1 concurrent instance.
Q8_0 · ~25GBRuns well - DeepSeek-Coder V2 (class)DeepSeek · ~16B · 128K ctx · DeepSeek License
Fits at Q8_0 (~18GB) with ~7.2GB headroom — about 1 concurrent instance.
Q8_0 · ~18GBRuns well - StarCoder2 15BStarCoder · ~15B · 16K ctx · BigCode OpenRAIL-M
Fits at Q8_0 (~17GB) with ~8.2GB headroom — about 1 concurrent instance.
Q8_0 · ~17GBRuns well - Qwen2.5 14BQwen · ~14B · 128K ctx · Apache-2.0
Fits at Q8_0 (~16GB) with ~9.2GB headroom — about 1 concurrent instance.
Q8_0 · ~16GBRuns well - Qwen3 14BQwen · ~14B · 128K ctx · Apache-2.0
Fits at Q8_0 (~16GB) with ~9.2GB headroom — about 1 concurrent instance.
Q8_0 · ~16GBRuns well - Phi-3 Medium (14B)Phi · ~14B · 128K ctx · MIT
Fits at Q8_0 (~15GB) with ~10.2GB headroom — about 1 concurrent instance.
Q8_0 · ~15GBRuns well
Offers
- Demo StoreDemoIn stock · checked 2026-06-23$2,000Demo only
- Demo MarketplaceDemoIn stock · checked 2026-06-23$2,080Demo 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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