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Cheapest Mac to run Qwen2.5-Coder 32B
32B parameters · quality index 29 · coding 38 · every Apple Silicon Mac ever sold, compared.
The cheapest Mac that runs Qwen2.5-Coder 32B comfortably is a used Mac mini M4 10c/10c 32GB (2024) at about $769 EST. on the used market — running Q4_K_M quantization at roughly 3.1 tok/s with up to 21K tokens of context.
Every Mac that runs it, by used price
| Machine | Used price | Runs at | Est. speed | Max context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mac mini M4 10c/10c 32GB (2024) | $769 EST. | Q4_K_M | 3.1 tok/s | 21K tokens |
| Mac mini M2 Pro 10c/16c 32GB (2023) | $1,062 EST. | Q4_K_M | 5.2 tok/s | 21K tokens |
| Mac Studio M1 Max 10c/24c 32GB (2022) | $1,229 EST. | Q4_K_M | 10 tok/s | 21K tokens |
| Mac Studio M2 Max 12c/30c 32GB (2023) | $1,249 EST. | Q4_K_M | 10 tok/s | 21K tokens |
| Mac mini M2 Pro 12c/19c 32GB (2023) | $1,249 EST. | Q4_K_M | 5.2 tok/s | 21K tokens |
| Mac Studio M1 Max 10c/32c 32GB (2022) | $1,352 EST. | Q4_K_M | 10 tok/s | 21K tokens |
| Mac Studio M2 Max 12c/38c 32GB (2023) | $1,374 EST. | Q4_K_M | 10 tok/s | 21K tokens |
| Mac Studio M1 Max 10c/24c 64GB (2022) | $1,475 EST. | Q8_0 | 5.7 tok/s | 54K tokens |
| MacBook Pro M1 Pro 10c/16c 32GB (2021) | $1,484 EST. | Q4_K_M | 5.2 tok/s | 21K tokens |
| Mac Studio M2 Max 12c/30c 64GB (2023) | $1,499 EST. | Q8_0 | 5.7 tok/s | 54K tokens |
See all 55 machines, other price bases, and live currency conversion →
Run it
ollama run qwen2.5-coder:32b pulls the default (≈Q4) build once you have Ollama installed.
Or skip the hardware
Cloud APIs serve Qwen2.5-Coder 32B at about $0.3 per million output tokens. The main site's break-even solver computes the daily usage where owning a Mac becomes cheaper than renting.
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.