~/local-capacity $ bandicot "Use local hardware deliberately while keeping model comparisons honest."
- + Hardware-aware local model installs
- + Local and hosted models in the same project
- + Reported usage recorded per model
- + A shortlist for each job, picked for your Mac's memory
- ? waits for you before it writes models
You bought the memory. Compare what fits it.
Pick a larger model the picker says fits, use it in the project beside a hosted model, and read the usage for each. Model choice stays separate from the project, so every comparison runs on your real work.
Free for one person on your Mac, no card. Your model provider bills you directly.
What it does for this job
Free Bandicot core
The free plan has every capability for one profile. Bring a provider key, a local model, or both; a provider's own bill stays yours.
A trusted harness around the model
Bandicot gives every agent a project, tools, a session that survives restarts, approvals, and a clear place to stop.
Projects that hold the work
Keep files, context, plans, and decisions with the project instead of losing them in a disposable chat.
Durable work sessions
Close the window, restart, or pick up from another of your Macs without turning the work into a brand-new conversation.
Start in three moves
Choose a fitting catalog model and use it in the project.
Say what the job is
Use local hardware deliberately while keeping model comparisons honest.
local-capacity/It works, you stay in charge
When work can change files or systems, Bandicot makes the decision visible before the effect lands.
Take the result or undo the run
Every changed file is recorded, and undoing a run puts its files back with one click.
What is true today
Each line says whether it ships now or is still being built, so you never buy a promise.
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Local models in one click
A pinned catalog of 23 chat and coding models, from Gemma 3 270M to Qwen3.5 35B-A3B, each checked against the Mac's GPU memory budget before download.
- Available now
Any model, one project
Switch between hosted providers and local models without rebuilding the project around one lab.
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See what every turn spent
Tokens, cache reads and cost are recorded per turn, session, profile and model, and the Habits tab shows the patterns.
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Before downloading a model, Bandicot checks memory needs and disk space.
Before a download, Bandicot reads the model's own file header to work out how much memory it will need and checks there is room on the disk.
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Hosted providers and local models can work in the same project.
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Models opens with a shortlist for each job and your Mac’s memory.
Models opens on a short list for each job, such as chat, code or speech, picked for your Mac's memory.
Local Capacity Bench
Every line below is already in the plan. Nothing here is an extra you pay for.
- Hardware-aware local model installsincluded
- Local and hosted models in the same projectincluded
- Reported usage recorded per modelincluded
- A shortlist for each job, picked for your Mac's memoryincluded
- Free for one profileincluded
Free for one person on your Mac, no card. Your model provider bills you directly.
No contract. Cancel any time from your account and keep the plan until the end of the period you paid for.
Is this for you?
Made for
Mac owners comparing local choices on their actual work.
High-memory Apple Silicon Mac owners exploring larger local models
Not yet for
People seeking pooled team GPU capacity or guaranteed throughput.
Everything on one slip
Hardware fit is checked before download, and reported usage is recorded per model.
bandicot
- Asked
- Use local hardware deliberately while keeping model comparisons honest
- Before it wrote
- It asked, and waited for your answer
- Files kept
- modelsversion kept
- usageversion kept
- projectversion kept
- Stands behind
- Before downloading a model, Bandicot checks memory needs and disk space
- Hosted providers and local models can work in the same project
- Models opens with a shortlist for each job and your Mac’s memory
- Paid to Bandicot
- Free
- Model bill
- from your provider
Local capacity explored in the same project as hosted models.
Same project, different model. Hardware fit is checked, Bandicot unloads the model you used least recently when a new one needs room, and never one that is answering.
You bought the memory. Compare what fits it.
Free for one person on your Mac, no card. Your model provider bills you directly.