mistralai/magistral-small-2509

LM-STUDIO MLX

mistral3 · 24B · 4bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

exaone-3.5-2.4b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

exaone · 2.4B · 8bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

74 vs 75

Hardware Fit

66 vs 100

Quality Score

78 vs 64

Hardware

mistralai/magistra… exaone-3.5-2.4b-in…

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mistralai/magistra… exaone-3.5-2.4b-in…

Tokens/sec7.937.0

First chunk1356 ms288 ms

TTFT1.4 s288 ms

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage13.2 GB2.4 GB

Memory %41%8%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mistralai/magistral-sma…

Speed

16/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

exaone-3.5-2.4b-instruc…

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

exaone-3.5-2.4b-instruc…

Reasoning

9/20

Coding

13/20

Instruction

15/20

Structured

14/15

Math

5/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

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