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qwen3:4b

qwen3 · 4.0B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

smollm2:135m

llama · 134.52M · F16

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
48 vs 48
Hardware Fit
53 vs 100
Quality Score
45 vs 14

Hardware

qwen3:4b smollm2:135m
Machine—MacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modeunknownbalanced

Performance

qwen3:4b smollm2:135m
Tokens/sec11.3245.0
TTFT9.2 s31 ms
Load time0.1 s0.4 s
Memory usage7.2 GB0.6 GB
Memory %23%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:4b

Speed
17/40
TTFT
6/30
Memory
30/30

smollm2:135m

Speed
40/40
TTFT
30/30
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3:4b

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
8/20
Structured
6/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

smollm2:135m

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
2/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
1/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor
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