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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

maternion/ling-3.0-tiny:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

bailingmoe3 · 7.9B · Q4_K_M

Good

Aug 26, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
58 vs 68
Hardware Fit
68 vs 98
Quality Score
54 vs 55

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx maternion/ling-3.0…
MachineMac miniMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro
Cores1010
RAM24 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.6.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx maternion/ling-3.0…
Tokens/sec16.772.1
First chunk23 ms175 ms
TTFT14.1 s175 ms
Load timeN/A3.6 s
Memory usage7.8 GB5.9 GB
Memory %33%37%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed
36/50
TTFT
3/20
Memory
29/30

maternion/ling-3.0-tiny…

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

Quality

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
4/20
Structured
9/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Adequate Math: Adequate Multilingual: Adequate

maternion/ling-3.0-tiny…

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
3/20
Structured
0/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
1/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong 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