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Cheapest Mac to run Command R+ 104B

104B parameters · quality index 20 · coding 18 · every Apple Silicon Mac ever sold, compared.

The cheapest Mac that runs Command R+ 104B comfortably is a used Mac Studio M2 Max 12c/38c 96GB (2023) at about $1,874 EST. on the used market — running Q4_K_M quantization at roughly 3.2 tok/s with up to 38K tokens of context.

Every Mac that runs it, by used price

MachineUsed priceRuns atEst. speedMax context
Mac Studio M2 Max 12c/38c 96GB (2023)$1,874 EST.Q4_K_M3.2 tok/s38K tokens
Mac Studio M4 Max 16c/40c 128GB (2025)$2,511 EST.Q6_K3.4 tok/s59K tokens
MacBook Pro M2 Max 12c/38c 96GB (2023)$2,687 EST.Q4_K_M3.2 tok/s38K tokens
Mac Studio M1 Ultra 20c/48c 128GB (2022)$2,951 EST.Q6_K4.9 tok/s59K tokens
Mac Studio M2 Ultra 24c/60c 128GB (2023)$2,999 EST.Q6_K4.9 tok/s59K tokens
MacBook Pro M3 Max 16c/40c 128GB (2023)$3,062 EST.Q6_K2.5 tok/s59K tokens
Mac Studio M3 Ultra 28c/60c 96GB (2025)$3,139 EST.Q4_K_M6.5 tok/s38K tokens
Mac Studio M1 Ultra 20c/64c 128GB (2022)$3,197 EST.Q6_K4.9 tok/s59K tokens
Mac Studio M2 Ultra 24c/76c 128GB (2023)$3,249 EST.Q6_K4.9 tok/s59K tokens
Mac Studio M2 Ultra 24c/60c 192GB (2023)$3,499 EST.Q8_03.5 tok/s110K tokens

See all 16 machines, other price bases, and live currency conversion →

Run it

ollama run command-r-plus:104b pulls the default (≈Q4) build once you have Ollama installed.

Open the interactive guide — speed simulator, TCO, all 75 machines →
Estimates: used prices are market ballparks, speeds are bandwidth-model estimates (±30%) calibrated against llama.cpp benchmarks — the methodology documents every formula. Computed from the same dataset as the live tool.