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mistralai/magistral-small-2509

LM-STUDIO MLX

mistral3 · 24B · 4bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

granite4.2:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

granite · 3.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 29, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
74 vs 80
Hardware Fit
66 vs 80
Quality Score
78 vs 80

Hardware

mistralai/magistra… granite4.2:3b
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… granite4.2:3b
Tokens/sec7.946.8
First chunk1356 ms135 ms
TTFT1.4 s135 ms
Load timeN/A0.0 s
Memory usage13.2 GB12.7 GB
Memory %41%79%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mistralai/magistral-sma…

Speed
16/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

granite4.2:3b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
10/30

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

granite4.2:3b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
15/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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