Mac LLM Calculator
Which Mac runs which LLM, and how fast
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Details
- External ID
- 1265415
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Mac LLM Calculator
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 6, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.76
- Tags
- Mac, Developer Tools, Artificial Intelligence, GitHub
Description
Pick a Mac and a model, get two answers: does it fit in unified memory, and how many tokens per second to expect. Covers M1 to M6 plus the NVIDIA and AMD boxes people compare them against. The speed model and the measured data are open source.
Enrichment
- Niche
- specialized calculation tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- hardware compatibility calculator for running local llms on mac
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a static or client-side calculation tool applying hardware memory formulas, bandwidth math, and quantization overhead models against a lookup table of Mac/GPU specs.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 93 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #24 of 94 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 328 days after the earliest competitor.
- BestLLMfor · ph · 2026-09-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- On the edge of Apple Silicon memory speeds · hn · 2026-01-17 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Shoehorn, a library to quantize an LLM to fit your Mac's VRAM · hn · 2026-08-14 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Rynler Token Cost Calculator · ph · 2026-10-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Open-source calculator for "will my GPU run this LLM?" · hn · 2026-08-24 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- QuickCompare by Trismik · ph · 2026-04-26 · 229 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- agent-gpu-calculator · github · 2026-09-24 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- VRAMGlass · ph · 2026-09-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
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