mistralai/magistral-small-2509
LM-STUDIO MLXmistral3 · 24B · 4bit
Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4
qwen3.5-2b-mlx
LM-STUDIO MLXqwen3_5 · 2B · 4bit
Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro
Global Score
74 vs 65
Hardware Fit
66 vs 88
Quality Score
78 vs 55
Hardware
mistralai/magistra… qwen3.5-2b-mlx
MachineMacBook AirMac mini
CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
Cores1014
RAM32 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.7.4
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
mistralai/magistra… qwen3.5-2b-mlx
Tokens/sec7.948.9
First chunk1356 ms4208 ms
TTFT1.4 s4.2 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage13.2 GB1.6 GB
Memory %41%3%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
mistralai/magistral-sma…
Speed
16/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30
qwen3.5-2b-mlx
Speed
50/50
TTFT
8/20
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
qwen3.5-2b-mlx
Reasoning
10/20
Coding
7/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
14/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
Run yours and compare
$
npm install -g metrillm@latest$
metrillmRequires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running
Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest