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qwen3-coder:30b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Jun 19, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 4bit

Good

Oct 20, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
89 vs 78
Hardware Fit
96 vs 56
Quality Score
86 vs 87

Hardware

qwen3-coder:30b qwen3.8-27b-mlx
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4 MaxApple M1 Pro
Cores1610
RAM64 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4 MaxApple M1 Pro
OSmacOS 26.5.1macOS 15.6.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3-coder:30b qwen3.8-27b-mlx
Tokens/sec89.910.8
First chunk188 ms8 ms
TTFT188 ms2.6 s
Load time4.0 sN/A
Memory usage30.2 GB21.0 GB
Memory %47%66%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-coder:30b

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

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Speed
23/50
TTFT
16/20
Memory
17/30

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

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate 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