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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-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
89 vs 59
Hardware Fit
96 vs 65
Quality Score
86 vs 57

Hardware

qwen3-coder:30b qwen3.5-9b-mlx
MachineMacBook ProMac mini
CPUApple M4 MaxApple M4
Cores1610
RAM64 GB24 GB
GPUApple M4 MaxApple M4
OSmacOS 26.5.1macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3-coder:30b qwen3.5-9b-mlx
Tokens/sec89.914.3
First chunk188 ms24 ms
TTFT188 ms13.4 s
Load time4.0 s13.3 s
Memory usage30.2 GB2.5 GB
Memory %47%10%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-coder:30b

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

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed
32/50
TTFT
3/20
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

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
5/20
Structured
9/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Adequate Math: Adequate Multilingual: Adequate
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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