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mistralai/magistral-small-2509

LM-STUDIO MLX

mistral3 · 24B · 4bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 4.7B · Q4_K_M

Good

Aug 26, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
74 vs 68
Hardware Fit
66 vs 86
Quality Score
78 vs 60

Hardware

mistralai/magistra… qwen3.5:4b
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
Tokens/sec7.936.5
First chunk1356 ms207 ms
TTFT1.4 s6.6 s
Load timeN/A3.2 s
Memory usage13.2 GB5.3 GB
Memory %41%33%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mistralai/magistral-sma…

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

qwen3.5:4b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
7/20
Memory
29/30

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

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
9/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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