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qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_moe · 30B · 4bit

Excellent

Oct 20, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

mistral:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7.2B · Q4_0

Good

Feb 28, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
87 vs 72
Hardware Fit
85 vs 100
Quality Score
88 vs 60

Hardware

qwen3-coder-30b-a3… mistral:latest
MachineMacBook ProMac Mini
CPUApple M1 ProApple M4 Pro
Cores1014
RAM32 GB64 GB
GPUApple M1 ProApple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 15.6.1macOS 15.7.4
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

qwen3-coder-30b-a3… mistral:latest
Tokens/sec45.754.3
First chunk17 msN/A
TTFT390 ms124 ms
Load timeN/A0.0 s
Memory usage22.4 GB9.9 GB
Memory %70%15%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-ins…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
15/30

mistral:latest

Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-ins…

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

mistral:latest

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
12/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

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