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qwen3:4b

qwen3 · 4.0B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

mistral:7b

llama · 7.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
48 vs 75
Hardware Fit
53 vs 95
Quality Score
45 vs 62

Hardware

qwen3:4b mistral:7b
Machine—MacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modeunknownbalanced

Performance

qwen3:4b mistral:7b
Tokens/sec11.322.0
TTFT9.2 s261 ms
Load time0.1 s0.7 s
Memory usage7.2 GB10.1 GB
Memory %23%32%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:4b

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

mistral:7b

Speed
35/40
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

mistral:7b

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
12/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
14/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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