Back to leaderboard

qwen3:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 4.0B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 8bit

Excellent

Aug 19, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

Global Score
47 vs 80
Hardware Fit
53 vs 52
Quality Score
45 vs 92

Hardware

qwen3:4b qwen/qwen3.8-27b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M4 Max
Cores1016
RAM32 GB128 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4 Max
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.5.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modeunknownbalanced

Performance

qwen3:4b qwen/qwen3.8-27b
Tokens/sec11.316.1
First chunkN/A14 ms
TTFT9.2 s5.8 s
Load time0.1 s8.5 s
Memory usage7.2 GB0.0 GB
Memory %23%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:4b

Speed
17/50
TTFT
6/20
Memory
30/30

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

Speed
17/50
TTFT
5/20
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

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
15/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
View qwen3:4b details | View qwen/qwen3.8-27b details

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest