qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

falcon3-1b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1B · 3bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

58 vs 54

Hardware Fit

68 vs 100

Quality Score

54 vs 34

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx falcon3-1b-instruct

MachineMac miniMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM24 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx falcon3-1b-instruct

Tokens/sec16.7121.8

First chunk23 ms176 ms

TTFT14.1 s176 ms

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage7.8 GB0.7 GB

Memory %33%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed

36/50

TTFT

3/20

Memory

29/30

falcon3-1b-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

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

falcon3-1b-instruct

Reasoning

7/20

Coding

1/20

Instruction

12/20

Structured

7/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

5/10

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

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest

$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest