Run GLM-5.3 753B on a Dedicated Mac

GLM-5.3 753B needs about 428 GB of memory at 4-bit. It runs on our 2× Mac Studio M5 Ultra 512GB Cluster at about 21–29 tokens per second, from $4,999/mo.

Macs that run GLM-5.3 753B

At 4-bit with a 32K-token context. Speeds are estimates; see real measurements on the calculator page.

  • 2× Mac Studio M5 Ultra 256GB Cluster Cluster
    21–29 tokens/sec · tight fit
    from $2,399/mo Available Nov 16, 2026
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  • Mac Studio M5 Ultra 512GB
    22–31 tokens/sec · tight fit
    from $2,499/mo Available Dec 30, 2026
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  • 2× Mac Studio M5 Ultra 512GB Cluster Best value Cluster
    21–29 tokens/sec
    from $4,999/mo Available Dec 30, 2026
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  • 4× Mac Studio M5 Ultra 512GB Cluster Cluster
    20–26 tokens/sec
    from $9,999/mo Available Dec 30, 2026
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Why it runs well on a Mac

Language models have to sit entirely in memory, and generating each word means reading through them again. Apple Silicon puts up to 512 GB of fast unified memory on one chip that the GPU can use directly, so a model like this fits on one quiet machine instead of a stack of graphics cards.

GLM-5.3 753B is a mixture-of-experts model: of its 753 billion parameters, only about 40 billion are used for each word. It needs memory for all of them but runs at the speed of a much smaller model.

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