mistralai/magistral-small-2509

LM-STUDIO MLX

mistral3 · 24B · 4bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Good

Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score

74 vs 68

Hardware Fit

66 vs 91

Quality Score

78 vs 58

Hardware

mistralai/magistra… qwen3.5:4b-mlx

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro

CPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro

Cores1010

RAM32 GB16 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.6.2

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mistralai/magistra… qwen3.5:4b-mlx

Tokens/sec7.942.2

First chunk1356 ms201 ms

TTFT1.4 s4.4 s

Load timeN/A0.0 s

Memory usage13.2 GB3.8 GB

Memory %41%24%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mistralai/magistral-sma…

Speed

16/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

Speed

50/50

TTFT

11/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

mistralai/magistral-sma…

Reasoning

14/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

15/15

Math

7/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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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