mistralai/magistral-small-2509

LM-STUDIO MLX

mistral3 · 24B · 4bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

lmstudio-community/Phi-4-reasoning-plus-MLX-4bit

LM-STUDIO GGUF

Not Rec.

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

74 vs 33

Hardware Fit

66 vs 74

Quality Score

78 vs 15

Hardware

mistralai/magistra… lmstudio-community…

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mistralai/magistra… lmstudio-community…

Tokens/sec7.911.5

First chunk1356 ms670 ms

TTFT1.4 s670 ms

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage13.2 GB3.0 GB

Memory %41%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mistralai/magistral-sma…

Speed

16/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

lmstudio-community/Phi-…

Speed

24/50

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

lmstudio-community/Phi-…

Reasoning

8/20

Coding

1/20

Instruction

1/20

Structured

1/15

Math

1/15

Multilingual

3/10

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

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