# Best local LLMs for Apple M5 (32GB)

Updated: 2026-06-15

Apple M5 (32GB): 32 GB unified, ~21 GB usable. Runs 52 of 67 tracked models.

- Qwen2.5 Coder 32B (32B): tight
- Granite 4.0 H Small (32B): tight
- Qwen3 30B-A3B (30.5B): tight
- Gemma 2 27B (27B): runs
- Gemma 3 27B (27B): runs
- Mistral Small 3 24B (24B): runs
- Sarvam-M 24B (24B): runs
- gpt-oss 20B (21B): runs
- DeepSeek-V2-Lite (16B): runs
- Phi-4 14B (14B): runs
- Qwen2.5 14B (14B): runs
- Qwen3 14B (14B): runs

More: https://localmodel.run/best-llm-for/apple-m5-32gb