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Mistral Small 3.1 24B ranked across the Mac lineup at the best practical quantization, using the best available runtime evidence.

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28 ranked MacsUse the strongest current runtime evidence for each row.Static paths cover only canonical model pages; sort and quantization stay as query state.

Rank	Mac	Score	Quant	Tok/s	Runtime	Fits	Evidence	Price	Why it ranks here
1	Mac Studio M3 Ultra 256GB	282	8bit	Measure it	Best available	Fits	Fit-first	$7,499	8bit is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct measurement. 231.9 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
2	Mac Pro M2 Ultra 192GB	218	8bit	Measure it	Best available	Fits	Fit-first	$6,999	8bit is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct measurement. 167.9 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
3	Mac Studio M4 Max 128GB	154	8bit	Measure it	Best available	Fits	Fit-first	$4,499	8bit is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct measurement. 103.9 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
4	MacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB 16-inch	154	8bit	Measure it	Best available	Fits	Fit-first	$5,999	8bit is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct measurement. 103.9 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
5	Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GB	122	8bit	Measure it	Best available	Fits	Fit-first	$3,999	8bit is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct measurement. 71.9 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
6	Mac Studio M4 Max 64GB	90	8bit	Measure it	Best available	Fits	Fit-first	$2,999	8bit is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct measurement. 39.9 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
7	MacBook Pro M4 Max 64GB 16-inch	90	8bit	Measure it	Best available	Fits	Fit-first	$4,499	8bit is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct measurement. 39.9 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
8	Mac Mini M4 Pro 48GB	74	8bit	Measure it	Best available	Fits	Fit-first	$1,599	8bit is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct measurement. 23.9 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
9	MacBook Pro M4 Pro 48GB 14-inch	74	8bit	Measure it	Best available	Fits	Fit-first	$2,499	8bit is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct measurement. 23.9 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
10	Mac Studio M4 Max 48GB	74	8bit	Measure it	Best available	Fits	Fit-first	$2,499	8bit is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct measurement. 23.9 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
11	MacBook Pro M4 Pro 48GB 16-inch	74	8bit	Measure it	Best available	Fits	Fit-first	$2,999	8bit is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct measurement. 23.9 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
12	MacBook Pro M4 Max 48GB 14-inch	74	8bit	Measure it	Best available	Fits	Fit-first	$3,499	8bit is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct measurement. 23.9 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
13	MacBook Pro M4 Max 48GB 16-inch	74	8bit	Measure it	Best available	Fits	Fit-first	$3,999	8bit is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct measurement. 23.9 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
14	Mac Studio M4 Max 36GB	62	8bit	Measure it	Best available	Fits	Fit-first	$1,999	8bit is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct measurement. 11.9 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
15	MacBook Pro M4 Max 36GB 14-inch	62	8bit	Measure it	Best available	Fits	Fit-first	$2,999	8bit is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct measurement. 11.9 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
16	MacBook Pro M4 Max 36GB 16-inch	62	8bit	Measure it	Best available	Fits	Fit-first	$3,499	8bit is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct measurement. 11.9 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
17	Mac Mini M4 32GB	58	8bit	Measure it	Best available	Fits	Fit-first	$799	8bit is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct measurement. 7.9 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
18	MacBook Air M4 32GB 13-inch	58	8bit	Measure it	Best available	Fits	Fit-first	$1,499	8bit is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct measurement. 7.9 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
19	MacBook Air M4 32GB 15-inch	58	8bit	Measure it	Best available	Fits	Fit-first	$1,699	8bit is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct measurement. 7.9 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
20	Mac Mini M4 24GB	48	Q6_K	Measure it	Best available	Fits	Fit-first	$599	Q6_K is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct measurement. 3.9 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
21	MacBook Air M4 24GB 13-inch	48	Q6_K	Measure it	Best available	Fits	Fit-first	$1,299	Q6_K is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct measurement. 3.9 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
22	Mac Mini M4 Pro 24GB	48	Q6_K	Measure it	Best available	Fits	Fit-first	$1,399	Q6_K is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct measurement. 3.9 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
23	MacBook Air M4 24GB 15-inch	48	Q6_K	Measure it	Best available	Fits	Fit-first	$1,499	Q6_K is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct measurement. 3.9 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
24	MacBook Pro M4 Pro 24GB 14-inch	48	Q6_K	Measure it	Best available	Fits	Fit-first	$1,999	Q6_K is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct measurement. 3.9 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
25	MacBook Pro M4 Pro 24GB 16-inch	48	Q6_K	Measure it	Best available	Fits	Fit-first	$2,499	Q6_K is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct measurement. 3.9 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
26	Mac Mini M4 16GB	41	q4.1bit	Measure it	Best available	Fits	Fit-first	$499	q4.1bit is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct measurement. 2.8 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
27	MacBook Air M4 16GB 13-inch	41	q4.1bit	Measure it	Best available	Fits	Fit-first	$1,099	q4.1bit is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct measurement. 2.8 GB headroom remains at this quantization.
28	MacBook Air M4 16GB 15-inch	41	q4.1bit	Measure it	Best available	Fits	Fit-first	$1,299	q4.1bit is the current best practical quantization. This Mac fits, but speed still needs direct measurement. 2.8 GB headroom remains at this quantization.

Mistral Small 3.1 24B — ranking first, catalog record below

Start with the ranked Mac table above. Use the rest of this page to inspect raw Apple Silicon coverage and model metadata.

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What this page answers best

Mistral Small 3.1 24B is cataloged because Apple Silicon buyers are already searching for it. Mistral Small 3.1 24B: 2 practitioner claims; 2 captured from fetched artifacts; hardware mentions: 24GB, 32GB, M1 Pro, M4; runtime mentions: llama.cpp, Ollama; themes: apple_silicon_viability, coding_quality, fit_and_memory, model_comparison, operational_caution, runtime_tuning; includes operational caveats. Use the ranking above for the current best Mac path, then open Bench when direct evidence lands.

Evidence state: 2 practitioner signals tracked, but no published benchmark rows yet.

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Catalog record

24BTotal params

DenseActive params

131,072Context window

2025-03-11Release date

No Apple Silicon benchmark rows are published for this model yet. It is kept visible here because it is part of the current frontier catalog.

What this model is, and what Apple Silicon users are actually seeing

Official model cards tell you what the model is for and which software stacks it targets. Field reality below shows how much Apple Silicon evidence we have so far.

Official brief

Building upon Mistral Small 3 (2501), Mistral Small 3.1 (2503) adds state-of-the-art vision understanding and enhances long context capabilities up to 128k tokens without compromising text performance.

Official source · Raw model card

agentsreasoningvisual-understanding

Runtime support mentioned

vLLMTransformers

Official takeaways

Note 1: We recommend using a relatively low temperature, such as temperature=0.15.
Note 2: Make sure to add a system prompt to the model to best tailer it for your needs. If you want to use the model as a general assistant, we recommend the following
Building upon Mistral Small 3 (2501), Mistral Small 3.1 (2503) adds state-of-the-art vision understanding and enhances long context capabilities up to 128k tokens without compromising text performance.
Mistral-Small-3.1-24-Instruct-2503 is excellent at function / tool calling tasks via vLLM.

Official model cards describe intent, capabilities, and supported stacks. They do not prove Apple Silicon speed by themselves.

Field reality on Apple Silicon

Mistral Small 3.1 24B: 2 practitioner claims; 2 captured from fetched artifacts; hardware mentions: 24GB, 32GB, M1 Pro, M4; runtime mentions: llama.cpp, Ollama; themes: apple_silicon_viability, coding_quality, fit_and_memory, model_comparison, operational_caution, runtime_tuning; includes operational caveats.

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0Field reports

2Practitioner signals

No BenchmarksEvidence status

What practitioners keep saying

Practitioners describe it as running on a Mac mini M4 24GB at around 6 tok/s and fitting on M1 Pro 32GB-class hardware once quantized.
The same discussion includes repetition and prompt-behavior complaints, so the model should stay grounded with caveats rather than treated as a settled winner.
The thread is centered on replacing parts of real agentic workflows with Mistral Small 3.1 rather than celebrating benchmark scores.

Runtime mentions in the field

llama.cppOllama

Hardware mentioned in reports

24GB32GBM1 ProM4MacMac Mini

What would improve confidence

Benchmark Current Apple Silicon Hot Model
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Queue Lab Verification If Hardware Available

Current published coverage

This page stays published because the model is in the frontier catalog, but Apple Silicon speed coverage is still missing.

Raw benchmark rows for Mistral Small 3.1 24B

Rows stay below the ranking because this page is answer-first. Use them to inspect exact chips, quantizations, runtimes, and sources.

No benchmark rows are published yet for this model. The ranking above still shows the best current Mac fit path, but the benchmark section stays empty until direct Apple Silicon measurements land.

Data

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