qwen2.5-7b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 7B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

starling-lm:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

84 vs 63

Hardware Fit

97 vs 97

Quality Score

78 vs 49

Hardware

qwen2.5-7b-instruct starling-lm:7b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5-7b-instruct starling-lm:7b

Tokens/sec24.423.7

First chunk464 msN/A

TTFT464 ms234 ms

Load timeN/A0.4 s

Memory usage4.0 GB5.3 GB

Memory %13%17%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-7b-instruct

Speed

47/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

starling-lm:7b

Speed

37/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

qwen2.5-7b-instruct

Reasoning

14/20

Coding

17/20

Instruction

15/20

Structured

15/15

Math

8/15

Multilingual

9/10

Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

starling-lm:7b

Reasoning

11/20

Coding

13/20

Instruction

6/20

Structured

3/15

Math

8/15

Multilingual

8/10

Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest

$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest