mistralai/magistral-small-2509

LM-STUDIO MLX

mistral3 · 24B · 4bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen2.5:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 7.6B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

74 vs 84

Hardware Fit

66 vs 95

Quality Score

78 vs 79

Hardware

mistralai/magistra… qwen2.5:7b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mistralai/magistra… qwen2.5:7b

Tokens/sec7.922.2

First chunk1356 msN/A

TTFT1.4 s285 ms

Load timeN/A0.8 s

Memory usage13.2 GB7.6 GB

Memory %41%24%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mistralai/magistral-sma…

Speed

16/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen2.5:7b

Speed

35/50

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

qwen2.5:7b

Reasoning

14/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

16/20

Structured

14/15

Math

8/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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