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qwen3-coder:30b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Jun 19, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

starling-lm:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
89 vs 65
Hardware Fit
96 vs 96
Quality Score
86 vs 52

Hardware

qwen3-coder:30b starling-lm:7b
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 starling-lm:7b
Tokens/sec89.923.8
First chunk188 ms232 ms
TTFT188 ms232 ms
Load time4.0 s0.4 s
Memory usage30.2 GB5.3 GB
Memory %47%17%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-coder:30b

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

starling-lm:7b

Speed
46/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

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

starling-lm:7b

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
8/20
Structured
3/15
Math
9/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor 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