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qwen3.5:4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Good

Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

qwen3-vl:30b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3vlmoe · 31.1B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Core™ Ultra 9 285K

Global Score
68 vs 80
Hardware Fit
91 vs 98
Quality Score
58 vs 72

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b-mlx qwen3-vl:30b
MachineMacBook ProASUS
CPUApple M1 ProIntel Core™ Ultra 9 285K
Cores1024
RAM16 GB47 GB
GPUApple M1 ProNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090, Intel(R) Graphics
OSmacOS 26.6.2Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:4b-mlx qwen3-vl:30b
Tokens/sec42.2208.9
First chunk201 ms102 ms
TTFT4.4 s684 ms
Load time0.0 s0.1 s
Memory usage3.8 GB22.0 GB
Memory %24%47%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
11/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3-vl:30b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
28/30

Quality

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
7/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Weak Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

qwen3-vl:30b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
12/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest