The LLMCheck index estimates KAT-Coder-V2.5 at ~44 tok/s on an M5 at Q4_K_M, scaled from its community-measured M3 Max run with the published bandwidth model, not a measured run on this chip. It needs about 24 GB of unified memory. It is Kwaipilot's 35B mixture-of-experts model (3B active), released under the Apache 2.0 licence.
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| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Tokens per second | estimated~44 tok/s |
| Provenance | estimate · how estimates are made |
| Quantization | Q4_K_M |
| Minimum RAM | 24 GB |
| Parameters | 35B MoE (3B active) |
| Chip bandwidth | 153 GB/s |
Each row as the index holds it, with its source. “Mac RAM” is the memory of the Mac a run used, not the model’s requirement (24 GB). The headline figure follows the reference rule: the lower-median measured plain-decode run at 5 bits or fewer (a run whose quant was not stated counts only when no stated-quant run qualifies), else the estimate; a run marked “not used to anchor estimates” is listed here but never becomes the headline.
| Speed | Quant | Engine | Mac RAM | Context | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| community49.5 tok/s | oQ2e | MLX | 32 GB | pp1024/tg128 | huggingface.co | MacBook Air. oMLX v0.5.4, TurboQuant 4-bit KV cache, thinking off; 2-bit oQ2e (47.1 tok/s at pp4096).; not used to anchor estimates |
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Kwaipilot's Apache 2.0 agentic coder; the open-weight 'Dev' release is a 35B MoE with 3B active, built on Qwen3.6-35B-A3B. About 20 GB at 4-bit, so it fits a 24 GB Mac; a community oMLX run measured 89.3 tok/s on an M5 Max (OptiQ 4-bit, MTP off), below the index's earlier 117 estimate.
Apache 2.0 licence · 35B MoE · 256K context · LLMCheck capability 39/50 · see its leaderboard rank →
KAT-Coder-V2.5 needs about 24 GB of unified memory. These current Apple Silicon Macs have the headroom to run it comfortably:
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