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qwen3-coder:30b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Jun 19, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
89 vs 81
Hardware Fit
96 vs 84
Quality Score
86 vs 79

Hardware

qwen3-coder:30b qwen3.5-9b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Air
CPUApple M4 MaxApple M4
Cores1610
RAM64 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4 MaxApple M4
OSmacOS 26.5.1macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3-coder:30b qwen3.5-9b
Tokens/sec89.920.4
First chunk188 ms3034 ms
TTFT188 ms3.0 s
Load time4.0 sN/A
Memory usage30.2 GB5.6 GB
Memory %47%17%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-coder:30b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
26/30

qwen3.5-9b

Speed
41/50
TTFT
14/20
Memory
29/30

Quality

qwen3-coder:30b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5-9b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong 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