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Run Claude Code Locally on Macs with Gemma 4 and Qwen 3.6

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A new method allows users to run Claude Code locally on Apple Silicon Macs without needing an API key or incurring costs. This setup utilizes the mlx-serve tool to host models like Gemma 4 or Qwen 3.6, enabling features such as streaming, tool calls, and multi-turn conversations through the Anthropic Messages API. The guide highlights that Gemma 4 E4B 4-bit offers approximately 105 tokens/sec decode on an M4 Max, while Qwen 3.6 27B 4-bit achieves around 36 tokens/sec with native MTP spec-decode, making it 1.43x faster for coding tasks. AI

IMPACT Enables local, cost-free execution of advanced AI coding assistants on personal hardware.

RANK_REASON This is a guide on how to use existing tools and models together, rather than a new release from a frontier lab.

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Run Claude Code Locally on Macs with Gemma 4 and Qwen 3.6

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  1. r/ClaudeAI TIER_2 English(EN) · /u/FootballSuperb664 ·

    Run Claude Code against a local Gemma 4 or Qwen 3.6 - no API key, no cost, works on any Apple Silicon Mac

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>If you have an Apple Silicon Mac you can run Claude Code completely locally (and free) by pointing it at a local server. Here's how:</p> <p><strong>Setup (2 minutes)</strong> brew tap ddalcu/mlx-serve <a href="https://github.com/ddalcu/mlx-serve"…

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