mistralai/magistral-small-2509

LM-STUDIO MLX

mistral3 · 24B · 4bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma4:12b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 11.9B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Aug 22, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score

74 vs 63

Hardware Fit

66 vs 62

Quality Score

78 vs 63

Hardware

mistralai/magistra… gemma4:12b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro

CPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro

Cores1010

RAM32 GB16 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.6.2

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mistralai/magistra… gemma4:12b

Tokens/sec7.915.3

First chunk1356 ms1142 ms

TTFT1.4 s30.0 s

Load timeN/A5.4 s

Memory usage13.2 GB7.6 GB

Memory %41%47%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mistralai/magistral-sma…

Speed

16/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

gemma4:12b

Speed

36/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

26/30

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

gemma4:12b

Reasoning

10/20

Coding

10/20

Instruction

9/20

Structured

14/15

Math

10/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest

$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest