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qwen2.5-coder:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 7.6B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 0.8B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
79 vs 55
Hardware Fit
95 vs 87
Quality Score
72 vs 41

Hardware

qwen2.5-coder:7b qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5-coder:7b qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx
Tokens/sec22.168.2
First chunkN/A3268 ms
TTFT285 ms3.3 s
Load time0.8 sN/A
Memory usage7.6 GB0.6 GB
Memory %24%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-coder:7b

Speed
35/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
13/20
Memory
24/30

Quality

qwen2.5-coder:7b

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

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
12/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest