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One subscription. Two Macs.
Subscribe here with the account you use in the Mac app. Renews automatically each year until you cancel.
CyCast for macOSYearly subscription
CA $20 per year
- CA$20 per year for CyCast, on up to 2 Macs
- All updates included while subscribed; covered versions and their patches keep working after it ends
- Features added later are sold separately
- Your final price, in your local currency where Stripe offers one, is shown in Stripe Checkout before you pay
- Promotion codes cannot be combined with the U of T discount
- Verified @mail.utoronto.ca accounts: CA$5 per year while eligible, checked again at each renewal
- Cancel at any time on your account page or through Link; cancellation stops the next renewal, with no pro-rata refund
- Payments are final except where the law requires a refund or Stripe's Link support grants one
- Apple silicon · macOS 26.2 or later. Download and open CyCast before paying to check compatibility.
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Before you subscribe
Apple silicon and macOS 26.2 or later are required. Download and open CyCast first to check compatibility. The catalogue was tested on a 16 GB Mac; these are measured model peaks, not total system requirements. Longer contexts and recordings need additional memory and disk space.
| Model | Download | Memory measurement |
|---|---|---|
| Llama 3.2 3B Instruct | 1.82 GB | Loaded and replied on the development Mac (Apple M1 Pro, 16 GB), 2026-09-27, at the pinned revision; MLX peak memory 1.94 GB for the load and a short reply |
| Mistral 7B Instruct v0.3 | 4.08 GB | Loaded and replied on the development Mac (Apple M1 Pro, 16 GB), 2026-09-27, at the pinned revision, with mistralai's pinned chat template; MLX peak memory 4.17 GB for the load and a short reply |
| Qwen2.5 7B Instruct | 4.30 GB | Loaded and replied on the development Mac (Apple M1 Pro, 16 GB), 2026-09-27, at the pinned revision; MLX peak memory 4.45 GB for the load and a short reply |
| Qwen3 4B Instruct 2507 | 2.28 GB | Loaded and replied on the development Mac (Apple M1 Pro, 16 GB), 2026-09-27, at the pinned revision; MLX peak memory 2.38 GB for the load and a short reply |
| Gemma 4 E4B it | 6.86 GB | Loaded and replied on the development Mac (Apple M1 Pro, 16 GB), 2026-09-27, at the pinned revision; MLX peak memory 5.92 GB for the load and a short reply |
How access works
Purchase with the account you use in the Mac app. Stripe handles payment; CyCast unlocks only once Stripe confirms the payment to CyCast's server. Your prompts and models remain on your Mac.
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