What you can run depends on your Mac's memory. Nano and Lite are free and fit a 16 GB MacBook Air. Pro adds Quick (16 GB minimum, 24 recommended), Core and Vision (24 GB). On a 64 GB Mac, Pro's 397B Plus tier streams from the SSD at about 1.6 tokens a second.
Claude Code is a coding agent that edits files and runs commands. Here's how to get the same workflow with a local model on macOS, fully offline.
Computer use lets an AI see your screen and operate your Mac. Vision 3.8 27B does the screen-reading locally on a 24 GB Mac or more, and it asks before every action by default.
Which Outlier tiers fit which memory size on a Mac mini or a Mac Studio, with tok/s measured on my M1 Ultra. Memory can't be upgraded later, so check before you buy.
No API key, no cloud, no rate limit. A coding agent that edits files and runs shell commands on your Mac, with MCP tools and approval prompts.
Run an AI coding workflow with no internet, no API key and no cloud on an M1, M2, M3 or M4 Mac with 16 GB of RAM or more. Costs, tradeoffs, and the stack I run.
Private AI means the model runs on your device. The test: switch off your wifi and see if it still answers. Compares Outlier, Ollama, LM Studio, Jan and llama.cpp.
Qwen3.5-397B-A17B at MLX 4-bit is a 209 GB model. Paged expert streaming keeps about 14 GB in RAM and reads the rest from your SSD. The tradeoff is speed.
Qwen3.5-397B-A17B normally needs hundreds of GB of RAM. Outlier runs it on a 64 GB Mac, at 1.59 tokens a second on our M1 Ultra Mac Studio, so it suits batch work, not quick replies. Plus is a Pro tier.
Free: Nano + Lite. Pro: $49 once; Black Friday price, all of November: $24.50 once, until 30 November. macOS 15+. Refund window: 30 days, no questions asked.
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