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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

phi4-mini:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

phi3 · 3.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
58 vs 71
Hardware Fit
68 vs 100
Quality Score
54 vs 58

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx phi4-mini:latest
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 phi4-mini:latest
Tokens/sec16.736.2
First chunk23 msN/A
TTFT14.1 s190 ms
Load timeN/A0.8 s
Memory usage7.8 GB8.3 GB
Memory %33%26%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

phi4-mini:latest

Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
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

phi4-mini:latest

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
11/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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