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qwen3.5:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 8, 2026 · Apple M4

microllm-250m:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 256.74M · F16

Not Rec.

Jul 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
34 vs 34
Hardware Fit
58 vs 100
Quality Score
23 vs 6

Hardware

qwen3.5:latest microllm-250m:latest
MachineMac miniMac mini
CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
Cores1012
RAM16 GB24 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.5.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:latest microllm-250m:latest
Tokens/sec13.3291.6
First chunk438 ms50 ms
TTFT19.8 s79 ms
Load time0.2 s0.0 s
Memory usage8.0 GB0.6 GB
Memory %50%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:latest

Speed
32/50
TTFT
1/20
Memory
25/30

microllm-250m:latest

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

Quality

qwen3.5:latest

Reasoning
6/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
3/20
Structured
0/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

microllm-250m:latest

Reasoning
1/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
5/20
Structured
0/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
0/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor

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