Mac mini specs for running AI agents 24/7
If your agents call APIs rather than run models locally, you need far less machine than the buying guides claim. Here is what three M4 Pro minis actually taught me.
Mini PCs
Small computers for everyday desktops, home servers, media centres, and always-on workloads.
Three of these run this site's own agent fleet, continuously, and the memory has never been the constraint. That is the opposite of the usual advice, which assumes models run locally; when the agents call APIs the model never touches your memory. Silent, and small enough to live in a room you work in. The internal disk cannot be upgraded, so 512GB is worth taking over 256GB.
If your agents call APIs rather than run models locally, you need far less machine than the buying guides claim. Here is what three M4 Pro minis actually taught me.