# Best local LLMs for Apple M5 (16GB)

Updated: 2026-06-15

Apple M5 (16GB): 16 GB unified, ~10.5 GB usable. Runs 39 of 67 tracked models.

- Qwen2.5 Coder 14B (14B): tight
- Mistral Nemo 12B (12.2B): runs
- Gemma 3 12B (12B): runs
- Llama 3.2 Vision 11B (10.7B): runs
- Falcon3 10B (10B): runs
- Gemma 2 9B (9B): runs
- GLM-4 9B (9B): runs
- Qwen2.5-VL 7B (8.29B): runs
- Llama 3.1 8B (8B): runs
- Qwen3 8B (8B): runs
- DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama 8B (8B): runs
- Mistral 7B (7B): runs

More: https://localmodel.run/best-llm-for/apple-m5-16gb