Best models for you

Local model picks

The top installable models for your hardware, by use case — ranked by Hugging Face popularity and how well they use your memory, refreshed daily. Showing a representative 16 GB tier — pair your Mac to see picks tuned to it.

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Qwen3 14B

qwen3:14b

Top pick

9.1 GB download · needs 13.2 GB RAM

311,738 Hugging Face downloads

Qwen2.5 14B

qwen2.5:14b

9.1 GB download · needs 13.2 GB RAM

214,749 Hugging Face downloads

Qwen3 8B

qwen3:8b

5.2 GB download · needs 8.4 GB RAM

311,738 Hugging Face downloads

Llama 3.2 3B

llama3.2:3b

2.0 GB download · needs 4.4 GB RAM

508,894 Hugging Face downloads

Llama 3.1 8B

llama3.1:8b

5.2 GB download · needs 8.4 GB RAM

258,496 Hugging Face downloads

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Qwen2.5 Coder 14B

qwen2.5-coder:14b

Top pick

9.1 GB download · needs 13.2 GB RAM

214,749 Hugging Face downloads

Qwen2.5 Coder 7B

qwen2.5-coder:7b

4.5 GB download · needs 7.6 GB RAM

214,749 Hugging Face downloads

Qwen2.5 Coder 3B

qwen2.5-coder:3b

2.0 GB download · needs 4.4 GB RAM

214,749 Hugging Face downloads

DeepSeek Coder V2 16B

deepseek-coder-v2:16b

10.4 GB download · needs 14.8 GB RAM

Qwen2.5 Coder 1.5B

qwen2.5-coder:1.5b

1.0 GB download · needs 3.2 GB RAM

214,749 Hugging Face downloads

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DeepSeek R1 14B

deepseek-r1:14b

Top pick

9.1 GB download · needs 13.2 GB RAM

86,629 Hugging Face downloads

DeepSeek R1 8B

deepseek-r1:8b

5.2 GB download · needs 8.4 GB RAM

86,629 Hugging Face downloads

DeepSeek R1 7B

deepseek-r1:7b

4.5 GB download · needs 7.6 GB RAM

86,629 Hugging Face downloads

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LLaVA 13B

llava:13b

Top pick

8.5 GB download · needs 12.4 GB RAM

Llama 3.2 Vision 11B

llama3.2-vision:11b

7.2 GB download · needs 10.8 GB RAM

LLaVA 7B

llava:7b

4.5 GB download · needs 7.6 GB RAM

Moondream 2

moondream:1.8b

1.2 GB download · needs 3.4 GB RAM

Embedding

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mxbai Embed Large

mxbai-embed-large:latest

Top pick

0.2 GB download · needs 2.3 GB RAM

4,464,265 Hugging Face downloads

Nomic Embed Text

nomic-embed-text:latest

0.1 GB download · needs 2.1 GB RAM

931 Hugging Face downloads

all-MiniLM

all-minilm:latest

0.0 GB download · needs 2.0 GB RAM

19,684 Hugging Face downloads