Can I Run Mistral Small 3.1 on Apple M4 Pro?

Autor: Jakub Rusinowski · Ostatnia aktualizacja: 12 lipca 2026

Yes, comfortably — you'll have ~9.8 GB of headroom running Mistral Small 3.1 24B at Q4_K_M (14.248500000000002 GB, ~10 tok/s (est.)) with room for up to 32K context.

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Apple M4 Pro Specs

VRAM24 GB unified memory
Memory Bandwidth273 GB/s

Mistral Small 3.1 24B on the Apple M4 Pro: VRAM by quantization

QuantVRAM neededFits 24 GB?Max context
F1648.7 GB✗ No
Q8_026.5 GB✗ No
Q6_K20.8 GB✓ Yes16K
Q5_K_M18.2 GB✓ Yes32K
Q4_K_M15.7 GB✓ Yes32K
Q3_K_M11.5 GB✓ Yes64K
Q2_K9.2 GB✓ Yes64K

VRAM needed assumes a 4K-token context with an f16 KV cache; “Max context” is the largest window that still fits in 24 GB of unified memory. Figures are estimates from parameter count, quantization and memory bandwidth — the analyzer lets you tune KV-cache quant and context.

Mistral Small 3.1 Sizes That Fit the Apple M4 Pro

Mistral Small 3.1 24BQ4_K_M · 14.248500000000002 GB · ~10 tok/s (est.)
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Apple M4 Pro · MSRP
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RTX 4090 (24 GB) class

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FAQ

Will Mistral Small 3.1 run on the Apple M4 Pro?

Yes, comfortably — you'll have ~9.8 GB of headroom running Mistral Small 3.1 24B at Q4_K_M (14.248500000000002 GB, ~10 tok/s (est.)) with room for up to 32K context.

Which Mistral Small 3.1 variant fits best on the Apple M4 Pro?

Mistral Small 3.1 24B at Q4_K_M quantization (14.248500000000002 GB), estimated ~10 tokens/sec, up to 32K context.

Mistral Small 3.1 on Other GPUs

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