qwen3.5-9b-mlx
LM-STUDIO MLXqwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit
Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro
mistral-small:24b
OLLAMA GGUFllama · 23.6B · Q4_K_M
Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-X925
Global Score
77 vs 75
Hardware Fit
67 vs 64
Quality Score
81 vs 80
Hardware
qwen3.5-9b-mlx mistral-small:24b
MachineMac miniNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_Spark
CPUApple M4 ProCortex-X925
Cores1420
RAM64 GB122 GB
GPUApple M4 ProDevice 2e12
OSmacOS 15.7.4Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedperformance
Performance
qwen3.5-9b-mlx mistral-small:24b
Tokens/sec20.314.3
First chunk4216 ms327 ms
TTFT4.2 s327 ms
Load timeN/A12.0 s
Memory usage5.6 GB18.5 GB
Memory %9%15%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
qwen3.5-9b-mlx
Speed
29/50
TTFT
8/20
Memory
30/30
mistral-small:24b
Speed
14/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30
Quality
qwen3.5-9b-mlx
Reasoning
15/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
14/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
mistral-small:24b
Reasoning
16/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
13/15
Math
9/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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$
npm install -g metrillm@latest$
metrillmRequires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running
Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest