Run Mistral Large 4 1T on a Dedicated Mac

Macs that run Mistral Large 4 1T

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

• 2× Mac Studio M5 Ultra 512GB Cluster Best value Cluster
  18–25 tokens/sec
  from $4,999/mo Available Dec 30, 2026
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• 4× Mac Studio M5 Ultra 512GB Cluster Cluster
  17–23 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.

Mistral Large 4 1T is a mixture-of-experts model: of its 1,000 billion parameters, only about 49 billion are used for each word. It needs memory for all of them but runs at the speed of a much smaller model.