---
license: apache-2.0
tags:
  - mlx
  - apple-silicon
  - mac
  - macos
  - local-llm
  - on-device
  - offline
  - private
  - mixture-of-experts
  - moe
  - ternary
  - quantization
  - 4-bit
  - quantized
  - text-generation
  - multimodal
  - vision
  - image-to-text
  - code-generation
  - reasoning
  - thinking
  - function-calling
  - tool-use
  - m1
  - m2
  - m3
  - m4
  - metal
  - mlx-lm
  - llama-cpp
  - ollama
  - outlier
  - outlier-app
  - llm
  - open-source
  - apache-2-0
  - macbook-pro
  - macbook-air
  - mac-studio
  - mac-mini
  - apple-intelligence
  - chatgpt-alternative
  - claude-alternative
  - private-ai
  - secure-ai
---
# Outlier

Local AI on your Mac. No API token caps from Outlier. Free Nano + Lite, $20/mo Pro gets you the full stack, $200 once for lifetime Founders.

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## Shipping tiers (v1.8)

| Tier | Plan | Disk | Min RAM |
|------|------|------|---------|
| Outlier Nano (Qwen3.5-4B, MLX 4-bit) | Free | 2.37 GB | 6 GB |
| Outlier Lite (Qwen3.5-9B, MLX 4-bit) | Free | 5.04 GB | 12 GB |
| Outlier Quick (Gemma-4-26B-A4B) | Pro | 15.61 GB | 16 GB |
| Outlier Core (Qwen3.6-27B) | Pro | 15.13 GB | 24 GB |
| Outlier Code (Core weights, code config) | Pro | 15.13 GB | 24 GB |
| Outlier Plus (Qwen3.5-397B-A17B, paged) | Pro | 209 GB | 32 GB (64 GB recommended) |
| Outlier Vision (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B) | Pro | 19.0 GB | 24 GB |

Verified benchmarks live on outlier.host (with source files, exact commands, sample size, and standard error per measurement).

## Patents

Three U.S. provisional applications filed April 2026, covering ternary Mixture-of-Experts inference, paged expert routing on consumer hardware, and zero-delta initialization with residual error correction. Total filing cost $195. 12-month conversion clock per application.

## Research artifacts

The V3.2 family (10B / 40B / 70B / 150B) on this org are research artifacts from the training pipeline that shipped in v1.8. They are not the shipping product — the shipping product is the Mac app at outlier.host. The earlier Outlier-10B, Outlier-10B-V2, and Outlier-40B repos are preserved for continuity and download-history value.

## Built by

Matt Kerr · Kerr & Company LLC · Grand Rapids, MI · matt@outlier.host