mistralai/magistral-small-2509

LM-STUDIO MLX

mistral3 · 24B · 4bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

ministral-3:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

mistral3 · 3.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

74 vs 71

Hardware Fit

66 vs 99

Quality Score

78 vs 59

Hardware

mistralai/magistra… ministral-3:3b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mistralai/magistra… ministral-3:3b

Tokens/sec7.942.2

First chunk1356 ms189 ms

TTFT1.4 s189 ms

Load timeN/A1.2 s

Memory usage13.2 GB7.0 GB

Memory %41%22%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mistralai/magistral-sma…

Speed

16/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

ministral-3:3b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

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

ministral-3:3b

Reasoning

5/20

Coding

16/20

Instruction

11/20

Structured

14/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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