Can Apple Mac Studio M4 Max 128GB run Llama, Qwen & DeepSeek? 354 models that fit

354 of the 396 models in the Spanvero catalog fit Apple Mac Studio M4 Max 128GB's 128 GB unified memory (at a sensible quant, 16k context). For each: run it locally ($0 compute + electricity), rent an equivalent GPU ($0 markup, as of 2026-07-02), or pay per-token via your own API key (as of 2026-07-06).

Three honest ways to run each model on Apple Mac Studio M4 Max 128GB

• Run it locally: $0 in compute — you pay only electricity (~85 W under load on this Mac). Local is real money, never a fake "$0".
• Rent an equivalent GPU: from a $0-markup vendor rate (as of 2026-07-02) — you rent on your own account and pay the vendor directly; we never resell compute.
• Skip the box: run the same model through your own API key, paying per million tokens (prices as of 2026-07-06).

What fits Apple Mac Studio M4 Max 128GB (128 GB unified memory)

• 354 of the 396 notable models in the Spanvero catalog fit Apple Mac Studio M4 Max 128GB at a sensible quant (context capped at 16k for the estimate). Most capable first:
• DeepSeek V4 Flash NVFP4 (nvidia, 166.7B) — needs ~113 GB at Q4_K_M: run it locally for $0 compute + ~$0.721/1M in electricity, rent 6× NVIDIA Tesla P40 24GB from $0.78/hr ($0 markup), or ~$1.43/1M via your own API key (size estimate).
• DeepSeek V4 Flash DSpark (deepseek-ai, 165.3B) — needs ~112 GB at Q4_K_M: run it locally for $0 compute + ~$0.7162/1M in electricity, rent 6× NVIDIA Tesla P40 24GB from $0.78/hr ($0 markup), or ~$1.42/1M via your own API key (size estimate).
• DeepSeek V4 Flash (deepseek-ai, 158.1B) — needs ~107 GB at Q4_K_M: run it locally for $0 compute + ~$0.6911/1M in electricity, rent 5× NVIDIA Tesla P40 24GB from $0.65/hr ($0 markup), or ~$0.14/1M via your own API key.
• NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B BF16 (nvidia, 123.6B) — needs ~85 GB at Q4_K_M: run it locally for $0 compute + ~$0.5676/1M in electricity, rent 8× NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB from $0.48/hr ($0 markup), or ~$1.09/1M via your own API key (size estimate).
• Mistral Large 2 (2407) (Mistral AI, 123B) — needs ~92 GB at Q4_K_M: run it locally for $0 compute + ~$0.5654/1M in electricity, rent 5× NVIDIA Tesla P40 24GB from $0.65/hr ($0 markup), or ~$1.08/1M via your own API key (size estimate).
• gpt oss 120b (unsloth, 120.4B) — needs ~82 GB at Q4_K_M: run it locally for $0 compute + ~$0.5558/1M in electricity, rent 8× NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB from $0.48/hr ($0 markup), or ~$1.06/1M via your own API key (size estimate).
• gpt-oss-120b (OpenAI, 117B) — needs ~80 GB at Q4_K_M: run it locally for $0 compute + ~$0.5432/1M in electricity, rent 8× NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB from $0.48/hr ($0 markup), or ~$0.09/1M via your own API key.
• MiniMax M2.7 NVFP4 (nvidia, 116.3B) — needs ~81 GB at Q4_K_M: run it locally for $0 compute + ~$0.5406/1M in electricity, rent 8× NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB from $0.48/hr ($0 markup), or ~$1.03/1M via your own API key (size estimate).
• MiniMax M2.5 NVFP4 (nvidia, 116.3B) — needs ~81 GB at Q4_K_M: run it locally for $0 compute + ~$0.5406/1M in electricity, rent 8× NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB from $0.48/hr ($0 markup), or ~$1.03/1M via your own API key (size estimate).
• GLM 4.5 Air (zai-org, 110.5B) — needs ~76 GB at Q4_K_M: run it locally for $0 compute + ~$0.5189/1M in electricity, rent 8× NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB from $0.48/hr ($0 markup), or ~$0.49/1M via your own API key.
• Llama 4 Scout (17B-16E) (Meta, 109B) — needs ~77 GB at Q4_K_M: run it locally for $0 compute + ~$0.5133/1M in electricity, rent 8× NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB from $0.48/hr ($0 markup), or ~$0.20/1M via your own API key (last-known).
• Ling 2.6 flash (inclusionAI, 107.5B) — needs ~81 GB at Q4_K_M: run it locally for $0 compute + ~$0.5076/1M in electricity, rent 8× NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB from $0.48/hr ($0 markup), or ~$0.02/1M via your own API key.
• sarvam 105b (sarvamai, 106B) — needs ~80 GB at Q4_K_M: run it locally for $0 compute + ~$0.5019/1M in electricity, rent 8× NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB from $0.48/hr ($0 markup), or ~$0.95/1M via your own API key (size estimate).
• Command R+ (08-2024) (Cohere, 104B) — needs ~75 GB at Q4_K_M: run it locally for $0 compute + ~$0.4943/1M in electricity, rent 7× NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB from $0.42/hr ($0 markup), or ~$0.93/1M via your own API key (size estimate).
• LLaDA2.1 flash (inclusionAI, 102.9B) — needs ~71 GB at Q4_K_M: run it locally for $0 compute + ~$0.4902/1M in electricity, rent 7× NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB from $0.42/hr ($0 markup), or ~$0.92/1M via your own API key (size estimate).
• MiniMax M2.7 REAP 172B A10B NVFP4 GB10 (scottgl, 97.6B) — needs ~68 GB at Q4_K_M: run it locally for $0 compute + ~$0.4698/1M in electricity, rent 7× NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB from $0.42/hr ($0 markup), or ~$0.88/1M via your own API key (size estimate).
• Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct (Qwen, 81.3B) — needs ~56 GB at Q4_K_M: run it locally for $0 compute + ~$0.4059/1M in electricity, rent 6× NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB from $0.36/hr ($0 markup), or ~$0.60/1M via your own API key.
• Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking (Qwen, 81.3B) — needs ~56 GB at Q4_K_M: run it locally for $0 compute + ~$0.4059/1M in electricity, rent 6× NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB from $0.36/hr ($0 markup), or ~$0.44/1M via your own API key.
• Qwen3 Coder Next (Qwen, 79.7B) — needs ~55 GB at Q4_K_M: run it locally for $0 compute + ~$0.3995/1M in electricity, rent 6× NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB from $0.36/hr ($0 markup), or ~$0.46/1M via your own API key.
• Qwen2.5 72B Instruct (Alibaba, 72B) — needs ~54 GB at Q4_K_M: run it locally for $0 compute + ~$0.3684/1M in electricity, rent 5× NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB from $0.30/hr ($0 markup), or ~$0.68/1M via your own API key (size estimate).

• DeepSeek V4 Flash NVFP4 — full cost breakdown
• DeepSeek V4 Flash DSpark — full cost breakdown
• DeepSeek V4 Flash — full cost breakdown
• NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B BF16 — full cost breakdown
• Mistral Large 2 (2407) — full cost breakdown
• gpt oss 120b — full cost breakdown
• gpt-oss-120b — full cost breakdown
• MiniMax M2.7 NVFP4 — full cost breakdown
• MiniMax M2.5 NVFP4 — full cost breakdown
• GLM 4.5 Air — full cost breakdown
• Llama 4 Scout (17B-16E) — full cost breakdown
• Ling 2.6 flash — full cost breakdown
• sarvam 105b — full cost breakdown
• Command R+ (08-2024) — full cost breakdown
• LLaDA2.1 flash — full cost breakdown
• MiniMax M2.7 REAP 172B A10B NVFP4 GB10 — full cost breakdown
• Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Instruct — full cost breakdown
• Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking — full cost breakdown
• Qwen3 Coder Next — full cost breakdown
• Qwen2.5 72B Instruct — full cost breakdown

The honest cost of owning Apple Mac Studio M4 Max 128GB

• Street price $3,699.00 (as of 2026-07-08; unverified street-price estimate — being sourced) — amortized over 3 years that's ~$3.3781/day whether or not you're generating.
• Electricity: ~85 W under sustained inference at $0.1883/kWh (EIA Electric Power Monthly Table 5.6.A — U.S. residential average, Apr 2026, as of 2026-07-02) — the per-1M-token figures above already include this at each model's speed.
• Straight talk: for the small models a 128 GB unified memory box runs, hosted APIs are often cheaper per token. Own local for privacy, offline use, and unlimited runs — not to save money on tokens.

Too big for Apple Mac Studio M4 Max 128GB — rent or use an API instead

• These need more than the 128 GB unified memory on this Mac. Closest first — you can still run them on a rented GPU ($0 markup) or via your own API key:
• Step 3.5 Flash (stepfun-ai, 199.4B) — needs ~147 GB; rent 7× NVIDIA Tesla P40 24GB from $0.91/hr, or ~$1.70/1M via your own API key (size estimate).
• MiniMax M2.7 (MiniMaxAI, 228.7B) — needs ~156 GB; rent 8× NVIDIA Tesla P40 24GB from $1.04/hr, or ~$0.45/1M via your own API key.
• MiniMax M2.5 (MiniMaxAI, 228.7B) — needs ~156 GB; rent 8× NVIDIA Tesla P40 24GB from $1.04/hr, or ~$0.30/1M via your own API key.
• MiniMax M2 (MiniMaxAI, 228.7B) — needs ~156 GB; rent 8× NVIDIA Tesla P40 24GB from $1.04/hr, or ~$0.64/1M via your own API key.
• Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 (Qwen, 235.1B) — needs ~160 GB; rent 8× NVIDIA Tesla P40 24GB from $1.04/hr, or ~$1.98/1M via your own API key (size estimate).
• Qwen3-235B-A22B (Alibaba, 235B) — needs ~160 GB; rent 8× NVIDIA Tesla P40 24GB from $1.04/hr, or ~$1.14/1M via your own API key.

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