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title: "Can I run DeepSeek, Kimi or GLM locally?"
description: "Yes, if you have enough memory. DeepSeek V3.1 needs about 378 GB at 4-bit, which runs comfortably on three 256 GB Mac Studios. Kimi K2 Thinking needs about 594 GB, or four. DeepSeek V4 Pro ships at about 893 GB, or six. With exo, four Mac Studios ran DeepSeek V3.1 at 32.5 tokens per second."
url: https://exolabs.net/faq/can-i-run-deepseek-kimi-glm-locally/
updated: 2026-10-26
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# Can I run DeepSeek, Kimi or GLM locally?

Yes, if you have enough memory. DeepSeek V3.1 needs about 378 GB at 4-bit, which runs comfortably on three 256 GB Mac Studios. Kimi K2 Thinking needs about 594 GB, or four. DeepSeek V4 Pro ships at about 893 GB, or six. With exo, four Mac Studios ran DeepSeek V3.1 at 32.5 tokens per second.

These are mixture-of-experts models: hundreds of billions of parameters in total, but only 32 to 49 billion active per token, which is why they run at usable speeds on Macs.

Smaller models fit on one machine: Qwen3.8-27B runs on a Mac with 32 GB, and gpt-oss-120b on one with 96 to 128 GB.

Check each model’s license on Hugging Face before commercial use.

**Where exo fits:** exo downloads these models from Hugging Face and splits them across your Macs automatically. The exo dashboard shows how much memory each model will use on each machine before you load it.

Sources:
- [Jeff Geerling: 1.5 TB of VRAM on Mac Studio, RDMA over Thunderbolt 5](https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/15-tb-vram-on-mac-studio-rdma-over-thunderbolt-5)
- [Hugging Face: deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.1](https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.1)
- [Hugging Face: moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Thinking](https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Thinking)
- [Hugging Face: zai-org/GLM-5.3](https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-5.3)
- [Hugging Face: deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813](https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813)
- [exo on GitHub (README)](https://github.com/exo-explore/exo)

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