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qwen2.5-coder-7b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 7B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3-coder:30b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Jun 19, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

Global Score
79 vs 89
Hardware Fit
92 vs 96
Quality Score
73 vs 86

Hardware

qwen2.5-coder-7b-i… qwen3-coder:30b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M4 Max
Cores1016
RAM32 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4 Max
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.5.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5-coder-7b-i… qwen3-coder:30b
Tokens/sec22.589.9
First chunk529 ms188 ms
TTFT529 ms188 ms
Load timeN/A4.0 s
Memory usage4.0 GB30.2 GB
Memory %13%47%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-coder-7b-instru…

Speed
44/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
28/30

qwen3-coder:30b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
26/30

Quality

qwen2.5-coder-7b-instru…

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
13/15
Math
9/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

qwen3-coder:30b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest