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qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 4.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

Global Score
81 vs 83
Hardware Fit
84 vs 100
Quality Score
79 vs 76

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b qwen3.5:4b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M1 Max
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M1 Max
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b qwen3.5:4b
Tokens/sec20.433.8
First chunk3034 ms293 ms
TTFT3.0 s293 ms
Load timeN/A2.5 s
Memory usage5.6 GB6.5 GB
Memory %17%20%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b

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

qwen3.5:4b

Speed
50/50
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

qwen3.5:4b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong 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