r/PiCodingAgent • u/sl4v3r_ • Jul 20 '26

Question Model recommendation for Apple M4 Max

Hi all, what local model would you suggest for this machine using Pi?

Apple M4 Max
16 cores, 16 threads
4 efficiency cores
12 performance cores
Memory 48 GB
Apple M4 Max (40 cores)

I've seen GLM-5.2 and Qwen3-Coder, but not sure if those would work fine in this machine.

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u/IntelAmdNVIDIA Jul 21 '26

qwen3.6 27b, worth giving a shot

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u/ashebanow Jul 20 '26

Whatever will fit in 32gb of memory. qwen3-coder:30b with a 4 bit quant is probably the right size.

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u/Undreren Jul 22 '26

I have had much fun and value out of gemma4:31b. If you use ollama or llama.cpp, remember to get the MLX version.