mistralai/magistral-small-2509

LM-STUDIO MLX

mistral3 · 24B · 4bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

maternion/ling-3.0-tiny:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

bailingmoe3 · 7.9B · Q4_K_M

Good

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score

74 vs 68

Hardware Fit

66 vs 98

Quality Score

78 vs 55

Hardware

mistralai/magistra… maternion/ling-3.0…

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… maternion/ling-3.0…

Tokens/sec7.973.6

First chunk1356 ms190 ms

TTFT1.4 s190 ms

Load timeN/A2.9 s

Memory usage13.2 GB5.9 GB

Memory %41%37%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mistralai/magistral-sma…

Speed

16/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

maternion/ling-3.0-tiny…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

28/30

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

maternion/ling-3.0-tiny…

Reasoning

19/20

Coding

17/20

Instruction

3/20

Structured

0/15

Math

15/15

Multilingual

1/10

Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Poor

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