qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

mistralai/magistral-small-2509

LM-STUDIO MLX

mistral3 · 24B · 4bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

53 vs 74

Hardware Fit

72 vs 66

Quality Score

45 vs 78

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b mistralai/magistra…

MachineMacBook ProMacBook Air

CPUApple M1 MaxApple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M1 MaxApple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:9b mistralai/magistra…

Tokens/sec18.67.9

First chunk403 ms1356 ms

TTFT10.2 s1.4 s

Load time4.3 sN/A

Memory usage9.1 GB13.2 GB

Memory %28%41%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b

Speed

38/50

TTFT

4/20

Memory

30/30

mistralai/magistral-sma…

Speed

16/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

qwen3.5:9b

Reasoning

12/20

Coding

3/20

Instruction

5/20

Structured

6/15

Math

11/15

Multilingual

8/10

Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

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

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest