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mistralai/magistral-small-2509

LM-STUDIO MLX

mistral3 · 24B · 4bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

falcon3-1b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1B · 3bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
74 vs 54
Hardware Fit
66 vs 100
Quality Score
78 vs 34

Hardware

mistralai/magistra… falcon3-1b-instruct
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mistralai/magistra… falcon3-1b-instruct
Tokens/sec7.9121.8
First chunk1356 ms176 ms
TTFT1.4 s176 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage13.2 GB0.7 GB
Memory %41%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mistralai/magistral-sma…

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

falcon3-1b-instruct

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
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

falcon3-1b-instruct

Reasoning
7/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
7/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Weak Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak
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