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mistralai/magistral-small-2509

LM-STUDIO MLX

mistral3 · 24B · 4bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

llama3.2:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 3.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Feb 28, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
74 vs 73
Hardware Fit
66 vs 100
Quality Score
78 vs 61

Hardware

mistralai/magistra… llama3.2:latest
MachineMacBook AirMac Mini
CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
Cores1014
RAM32 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.7.4
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

mistralai/magistra… llama3.2:latest
Tokens/sec7.998.9
First chunk1356 msN/A
TTFT1.4 s125 ms
Load timeN/A2.3 s
Memory usage13.2 GB22.1 GB
Memory %41%35%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mistralai/magistral-sma…

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

llama3.2:latest

Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
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

llama3.2:latest

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
12/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest