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microllm-250m:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 256.74M · F16

Not Rec.

Jul 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Good

Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
34 vs 77
Hardware Fit
100 vs 67
Quality Score
6 vs 81

Hardware

microllm-250m:latest qwen3.5-9b-mlx
MachineMac miniMac mini
CPUApple M4 ProApple M4 Pro
Cores1214
RAM24 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.5.2macOS 15.7.4
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

microllm-250m:latest qwen3.5-9b-mlx
Tokens/sec291.620.3
First chunk50 ms4216 ms
TTFT79 ms4.2 s
Load time0.0 sN/A
Memory usage0.6 GB5.6 GB
Memory %2%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microllm-250m:latest

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

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed
29/50
TTFT
8/20
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

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
14/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest