What hardware do I need?

Hardware that delivers the experience you want — not just loads the model

Pick the model and describe the workload. We rate every machine in the database for that exact workload and group them by whether they meet your target.

1 · Model

Quantization

2 · Use case

Agentic coding

Chat & writing

Coding

Documents & research

Multimodal

Automation & serving

3 · Tool & runtime

Tool: OpenCode

Runtime

4 · Workload

Context

Project size, agent behaviour, other apps

Coding style

Repository size

Repository size is a signal for retrieval and prompt-processing load — the whole repo never goes into the context.

How does the agent behave?

What else do you normally run while coding?

This memory is subtracted before the model is considered. Very important on 16–32 GB machines.

5 · Desired experience

6 · Budget & vendors (optional)

Prices are approximate launch prices for the whole system.

USD max

AppleNVIDIAAMDIntel

Mistral Small 4 (119B-A6.5B) · Agentic coding / medium repository

Target: comfortable · 22 machines meet it

Meets your comfortable target (22)

Cheapest first.

Comfortable

Mac Studio M2 Max 96 GB

96 GB unified memory · 400 GB/s

Quant / runtime: Q4 · LM Studio
Generation: 45–60 tok/s
Per step: ≈15 s
Headroom: 18 GB

$3,799Calibrated

Comfortable

MacBook Pro M3 Max 96 GB

96 GB unified memory · 300 GB/s

Quant / runtime: Q4 · LM Studio
Generation: 35–45 tok/s
Per step: ≈20 s
Headroom: 18 GB

$3,999Calibrated

Comfortable

Mac Studio M4 Max 128 GB

128 GB unified memory · 546 GB/s

Quant / runtime: Q6 · LM Studio
Generation: 40–55 tok/s
Per step: ≈15 s
Headroom: 22 GB

$4,099Calibrated

Comfortable

Mac Studio M5 Max 128 GB

128 GB unified memory · 614 GB/s

Quant / runtime: Q6 · LM Studio
Generation: 40–65 tok/s
Per step: ≈9 s
Headroom: 22 GB

$4,099Estimated

Comfortable

MacBook Pro M2 Max 96 GB

96 GB unified memory · 400 GB/s

Quant / runtime: Q4 · LM Studio
Generation: 45–60 tok/s
Per step: ≈15 s
Headroom: 18 GB

$5,099Calibrated

Comfortable

MacBook Pro M3 Max 128 GB

128 GB unified memory · 400 GB/s

Quant / runtime: Q5 · LM Studio
Generation: 35–50 tok/s
Per step: ≈15 s
Headroom: 36 GB

$5,299Calibrated

Comfortable

MacBook Pro M4 Max 128 GB

128 GB unified memory · 546 GB/s

Quant / runtime: Q6 · LM Studio
Generation: 40–55 tok/s
Per step: ≈15 s
Headroom: 22 GB

$5,299Calibrated

Comfortable

Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96 GB

96 GB unified memory · 819 GB/s

Quant / runtime: Q4 · LM Studio
Generation: 60–80 tok/s
Per step: ≈9 s
Headroom: 18 GB

$5,499Calibrated

Comfortable

Mac Studio M5 Ultra 128 GB

128 GB unified memory · 1228 GB/s

Quant / runtime: Q6 · LM Studio
Generation: 60–100 tok/s
Per step: ≈6 s
Headroom: 22 GB

$5,499Estimated

Meets the acceptable target (1)

Usable, with noticeable compromises for this workload.

Acceptable

Ryzen AI Max+ 395 mini PC / Framework Desktop · 128 GB

128 GB unified memory · 256 GB/s

Quant / runtime: Q6 · Lemonade
Generation: 25–35 tok/s
Per step: ≈25 s
Headroom: 19 GB

$2,000Calibrated

Can run, but below your target (7)

The model loads, but the experience falls short for this workload.

Cannot run (98)

Not enough usable memory, or no compatible runtime.