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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 7B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

79 vs 59

Hardware Fit

92 vs 65

Quality Score

73 vs 57

Hardware

qwen2.5-coder-7b-i… qwen3.5-9b-mlx

MachineMacBook AirMac mini

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB24 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5-coder-7b-i… qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Tokens/sec22.514.3

First chunk529 ms24 ms

TTFT529 ms13.4 s

Load timeN/A13.3 s

Memory usage4.0 GB2.5 GB

Memory %13%10%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-coder-7b-instru…

Speed

44/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

28/30

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed

32/50

TTFT

3/20

Memory

30/30

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

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Reasoning

10/20

Coding

17/20

Instruction

5/20

Structured

9/15

Math

11/15

Multilingual

5/10

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

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$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest