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microllm-250m:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 256.74M · F16

Not Rec.

Jul 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO UNKNOWN

27B

Good

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
34 vs 66
Hardware Fit
100 vs 91
Quality Score
6 vs 55

Hardware

microllm-250m:latest qwen3.8-27b-mlx
MachineMac miniMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4 ProApple M5 Max
Cores1218
RAM24 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M5 Max
OSmacOS 26.5.2macOS 27.0
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

microllm-250m:latest qwen3.8-27b-mlx
Tokens/sec291.633.2
First chunk50 ms7 ms
TTFT79 ms311 ms
Load time0.0 sN/A
Memory usage0.6 GB0.5 GB
Memory %2%1%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microllm-250m:latest

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

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Speed
41/50
TTFT
20/20
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

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
0/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
3/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Weak
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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