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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Good

Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

hf.co/ornith-ai/Ornith-1.0-9B-GGUF:Q4_K_M

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 8.95B · unknown

Excellent

Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
77 vs 87
Hardware Fit
67 vs 95
Quality Score
81 vs 83

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx hf.co/ornith-ai/Or…
MachineMac miniMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4 ProApple M1 Pro
Cores1410
RAM64 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M1 Pro
OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 26.6.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx hf.co/ornith-ai/Or…
Tokens/sec20.322.2
First chunk4216 ms334 ms
TTFT4.2 s334 ms
Load timeN/A3.3 s
Memory usage5.6 GB6.9 GB
Memory %9%43%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed
29/50
TTFT
8/20
Memory
30/30

hf.co/ornith-ai/Ornith-…

Speed
48/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
27/30

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

hf.co/ornith-ai/Ornith-…

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong 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