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qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

cogito:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
81 vs 77
Hardware Fit
84 vs 92
Quality Score
79 vs 70

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b cogito:8b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b cogito:8b
Tokens/sec20.421.0
First chunk3034 ms312 ms
TTFT3.0 s312 ms
Load timeN/A0.8 s
Memory usage5.6 GB10.4 GB
Memory %17%33%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b

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

cogito:8b

Speed
42/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

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

cogito:8b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
15/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest