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deepseek-r1:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

unsloth-phi-4

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
66 vs 82
Hardware Fit
100 vs 88
Quality Score
51 vs 80

Hardware

deepseek-r1:1.5b unsloth-phi-4
MachineMacBook AirMac mini
CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
Cores1014
RAM32 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.7.4
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

deepseek-r1:1.5b unsloth-phi-4
Tokens/sec85.427.4
First chunk115 ms457 ms
TTFT115 ms457 ms
Load time0.5 sN/A
Memory usage2.6 GB7.7 GB
Memory %8%12%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

deepseek-r1:1.5b

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

unsloth-phi-4

Speed
38/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

deepseek-r1:1.5b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
4/20
Instruction
8/20
Structured
6/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Adequate

unsloth-phi-4

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
13/15
Math
9/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest