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microllm-250m:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 256.74M · F16

Not Rec.

Jul 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Good

Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
34 vs 68
Hardware Fit
100 vs 91
Quality Score
6 vs 58

Hardware

microllm-250m:latest qwen3.5:4b-mlx
MachineMac miniMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4 ProApple M1 Pro
Cores1210
RAM24 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M1 Pro
OSmacOS 26.5.2macOS 26.6.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

microllm-250m:latest qwen3.5:4b-mlx
Tokens/sec291.642.2
First chunk50 ms201 ms
TTFT79 ms4.4 s
Load time0.0 s0.0 s
Memory usage0.6 GB3.8 GB
Memory %2%24%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microllm-250m:latest

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

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
11/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

microllm-250m:latest

Reasoning
1/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
5/20
Structured
0/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
0/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
7/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Weak Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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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