mistralai/magistral-small-2509

LM-STUDIO MLX

mistral3 · 24B · 4bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

neural-chat:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

74 vs 67

Hardware Fit

66 vs 96

Quality Score

78 vs 55

Hardware

mistralai/magistra… neural-chat:7b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mistralai/magistra… neural-chat:7b

Tokens/sec7.922.5

First chunk1356 msN/A

TTFT1.4 s242 ms

Load timeN/A0.4 s

Memory usage13.2 GB4.5 GB

Memory %41%14%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mistralai/magistral-sma…

Speed

16/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

neural-chat:7b

Speed

36/50

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

neural-chat:7b

Reasoning

7/20

Coding

9/20

Instruction

12/20

Structured

12/15

Math

7/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

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$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest