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mistralai/magistral-small-2509

LM-STUDIO MLX

mistral3 · 24B · 4bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:0.6b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 751.63M · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
74 vs 73
Hardware Fit
66 vs 100
Quality Score
78 vs 62

Hardware

mistralai/magistra… qwen3:0.6b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mistralai/magistra… qwen3:0.6b
Tokens/sec7.9145.2
First chunk1356 msN/A
TTFT1.4 s1.4 s
Load timeN/A0.7 s
Memory usage13.2 GB4.1 GB
Memory %41%13%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mistralai/magistral-sma…

Speed
16/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3:0.6b

Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
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

qwen3:0.6b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
3/20
Instruction
11/20
Structured
13/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
View mistralai/magistra… details | View qwen3:0.6b details

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest