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qwen3.5:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 4.7B · Q4_K_M

Good

Aug 26, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 9B · Q4_K_S

Not Rec.

Mar 14, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
68 vs 72
Hardware Fit
86 vs 51
Quality Score
60 vs 81

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b qwen3.5-9b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Air
CPUApple M1 ProApple M4
Cores1010
RAM16 GB32 GB
GPUApple M1 ProApple M4
OSmacOS 26.6.2macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:4b qwen3.5-9b
Tokens/sec36.514.4
First chunk207 ms4 ms
TTFT6.6 s824 ms
Load time3.2 sN/A
Memory usage5.3 GB48.3 GB
Memory %33%151%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
7/20
Memory
29/30

qwen3.5-9b

Speed
31/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
0/30

Quality

qwen3.5:4b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
9/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5-9b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
9/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest