mistralai/magistral-small-2509

LM-STUDIO MLX

mistral3 · 24B · 4bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

deepseek-r1:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 7.6B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jun 25, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

Global Score

74 vs 23

Hardware Fit

66 vs 70

Quality Score

78 vs 3

Hardware

mistralai/magistra… deepseek-r1:latest

MachineMacBook AirNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit Super

CPUApple M4Cortex-A78AE

Cores106

RAM32 GB7 GB

GPUApple M4Integrated / Unknown

OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mistralai/magistra… deepseek-r1:latest

Tokens/sec7.99.8

First chunk1356 ms1206 ms

TTFT1.4 s1.2 s

Load timeN/A17.8 s

Memory usage13.2 GB4.8 GB

Memory %41%65%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mistralai/magistral-sma…

Speed

16/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

deepseek-r1:latest

Speed

32/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

18/30

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

deepseek-r1:latest

Reasoning

0/20

Coding

1/20

Instruction

0/20

Structured

0/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

0/10

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

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest

$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest