Conversation models that run on 36 GB

539 models with published weights that fit in 36 GB — a MacBook Pro with 36. Counted at four-bit quantisation, weights only, leaving the machine about a third of its memory and a gigabyte for context: room for roughly 37 billion parameters. A mixture of experts is counted in full, because it is held in full even though only a few experts compute. 539 in all, a hundred to a page; this is page 6 of 6.

An Apple configuration, and a comfortable one: it holds what 32 GB holds without the machine feeling tight, which in practice means a longer context or a browser you do not have to close first.

Models that answer in prose across whatever subject you put to them. This is the largest category and the least differentiated: most of them are competent at most things, so the choice usually comes down to price, context length and how the maker behaves about availability. Look at what a model costs per million tokens in and out — the output rate is often four or five times the input rate, and it is the one that decides your bill.

• LFM2.5-350MLiquid AI0.4B≈0.2 GB at 4-bit
• nougat-basefacebook0.3B≈0.2 GB at 4-bit
• bert-large-uncased-whole-word-masking-finetuned-squadBERT community0.3B≈0.2 GB at 4-bit
• mdeberta-v3-base-squad2timpal0l0.3B≈0.2 GB at 4-bit
• functiongemma-270m-itGoogle0.3B≈0.2 GB at 4-bit
• gemma-3-270mGoogle0.3B≈0.2 GB at 4-bit
• gemma-3-270m-itGoogle0.3B≈0.2 GB at 4-bit
• granite-docling-258MIBM Granite0.3B≈0.2 GB at 4-bit
• Florence-2-baseMicrosoft0.2B≈0.2 GB at 4-bit
• t5-baseT5 community0.2B≈0.1 GB at 4-bit
• chatgpt_paraphraser_on_T5_baseHumarin0.2B≈0.1 GB at 4-bit
• BiRefNetZhengPeng70.2B≈0.1 GB at 4-bit
• RMBG-2.0BRIA AI0.2B≈0.1 GB at 4-bit
• bert-base-multilingual-casedBERT community0.2B≈0.1 GB at 4-bit
• gpt-neo-125mEleutherAI0.2B≈0.1 GB at 4-bit
• ModernBERT-baseAnswer.AI0.1B≈0.1 GB at 4-bit
• MagicPrompt-Stable-DiffusionGustavosta0.1B≈0.1 GB at 4-bit
• gpt2OpenAI community0.1B≈0.1 GB at 4-bit
• distilbert-base-multilingual-caseddistilbert0.1B≈0.1 GB at 4-bit
• SmolLM2-135MHuggingFaceTB0.1B≈0.1 GB at 4-bit
• roberta-baseFacebook AI community0.1B≈0.1 GB at 4-bit
• roberta-base-squad2deepset0.1B≈0.1 GB at 4-bit
• bert-base-uncasedBERT community0.1B≈0.1 GB at 4-bit
• bert-base-casedBERT community0.1B≈0.1 GB at 4-bit
• bert-base-chineseBERT community0.1B≈0.1 GB at 4-bit
• BEN2Prama LLC0.1B≈0.1 GB at 4-bit
• distilgpt2DistilBERT community0.1B≈0.1 GB at 4-bit
• vit-base-patch16-224Google0.1B≈0.1 GB at 4-bit
• nsfw_image_detectionFalcons.ai0.1B≈0.1 GB at 4-bit
• distilbert-base-uncasedDistilBERT community0.1B≈0.0 GB at 4-bit
• t5-smallT5 community0.1B≈0.0 GB at 4-bit
• RMBG-1.4BRIA AI0.0B≈0.0 GB at 4-bit
• detr-resnet-50AI at Meta0.0B≈0.0 GB at 4-bit
• table-transformer-structure-recognitionMicrosoft0.0B≈0.0 GB at 4-bit
• table-transformer-detectionMicrosoft0.0B≈0.0 GB at 4-bit
• segformer_b2_clothesmattmdjaga0.0B≈0.0 GB at 4-bit
• segformer-b0-finetuned-ade-512-512NVIDIA0.0B≈0.0 GB at 4-bit
• Ornith-1.0-9BOrnith0.0B≈0.0 GB at 4-bit
• AutoGLM-Phone-9BZ.ai0.0B≈0.0 GB at 4-bit

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