qwen3.5:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 8, 2026 · Apple M4

ministral-3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

mistral3 · 8.9B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

34 vs 76

Hardware Fit

58 vs 89

Quality Score

23 vs 71

Hardware

qwen3.5:latest ministral-3:8b

MachineMac miniMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM16 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:latest ministral-3:8b

Tokens/sec13.319.5

First chunk438 ms328 ms

TTFT19.8 s328 ms

Load time0.2 s1.5 s

Memory usage8.0 GB10.6 GB

Memory %50%33%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:latest

Speed

32/50

TTFT

1/20

Memory

25/30

ministral-3:8b

Speed

39/50

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

ministral-3:8b

Reasoning

12/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

12/20

Structured

13/15

Math

6/15

Multilingual

10/10

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