# Best local LLMs for Apple M1 (8GB)

Updated: 2026-06-15

Apple M1 (8GB): 8 GB unified, ~5.5 GB usable. Runs 24 of 67 tracked models.

- Gemma 3 4B (4B): runs
- Qwen3 4B (4B): runs
- Phi-3.5-mini 3.8B (3.82B): runs
- Phi-4-mini 3.8B (3.8B): runs
- Qwen2.5-VL 3B (3.75B): runs
- Qwen2.5 3B (3.09B): runs
- Qwen2.5 Coder 3B (3.09B): runs
- Llama 3.2 3B (3B): runs
- SmolLM3 3B (3B): runs
- Gemma 2 2B (2.61B): runs
- Granite 3.1 2B (2.53B): runs
- Sarvam-1 2B (2B): runs

More: https://localmodel.run/best-llm-for/apple-m1-8gb