mistralai/magistral-small-2509

LM-STUDIO MLX

mistral3 · 24B · 4bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

tinyllama:1.1b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 1B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

74 vs 43

Hardware Fit

66 vs 100

Quality Score

78 vs 19

Hardware

mistralai/magistra… tinyllama:1.1b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mistralai/magistra… tinyllama:1.1b

Tokens/sec7.9121.0

First chunk1356 msN/A

TTFT1.4 s82 ms

Load timeN/A0.4 s

Memory usage13.2 GB0.7 GB

Memory %41%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mistralai/magistral-sma…

Speed

16/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

tinyllama:1.1b

Speed

40/50

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

tinyllama:1.1b

Reasoning

2/20

Coding

1/20

Instruction

6/20

Structured

7/15

Math

0/15

Multilingual

3/10

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

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest

$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest