Yes — with 30.3 GB to spare
Fara 7B at Q4_K_M fits your M4 Pro · 48 GB entirely in unified memory at 8K context, at an estimated 33 tokens per second. There is room for its full 125K window.
Fully in unified memory
8K context
Q4_K_M · 4.7 GB
MIT
Released 24 Nov 2025
Vision
Not in the Ollama library
A web computer-use agent on a Qwen2.5-VL base — it clicks, fills forms and stops for permission. Not a chat model; size it like an 8B with vision.
The VRAM budget
weights 4.7 GB
Weights 4.7 GB
KV cache @ 8K 0.44 GB
Runtime overhead 0.6 GB
Free 30.3 GB of 36.0 GB
Quantisation ladder
| Quant | Weights | Total @ 8K | Max context | Tok/s | Quality | Fit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F16 | 15.4 GB | 16.5 GB | 125K | 9.9 | Reference | Long context |
| Q8_0 | 8.2 GB | 9.2 GB | 125K | 19 | −0.1% ppl | Long context |
| Q6_K | 6.3 GB | 7.4 GB | 125K | 24 | −0.4% ppl | Long context |
| Q5_K_M | 5.5 GB | 6.5 GB | 125K | 28 | −0.8% ppl | Long context |
| Q4_K_M | 4.7 GB | 5.7 GB | 125K | 33 | −1.9% ppl | Recommended |
| Q3_K_M | 3.8 GB | 4.8 GB | 125K | 40 | −5.4% ppl | Long context |
| Q2_K | 3.2 GB | 4.3 GB | 125K | 47 | −15% ppl | Long context |
Quality is the published perplexity delta against f16 weights. Max context assumes an f16 KV cache; q8_0 roughly doubles it.
How to run it
$ pip install mlx-lm $ mlx_lm.generate --model mlx-community/Fara-7B-4bit \ --max-tokens 512 --prompt "Hello"
Apple's own array framework. The fastest path on Apple Silicon. More on MLX.
01Download is 4.7 GB. Keep it on an SSD — a first load off a spinning disk takes minutes.
02macOS caps what the GPU may wire down at about 36.0 GB of 48 GB. Raising it with iogpu.wired_limit_mb is possible, and risky.
03There is room to go to the model's full 125K context on this card.