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mistralai/devstral-small-2-2512

LM-STUDIO MLX

mistral3 · 24B · 4bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
69 vs 81
Hardware Fit
50 vs 84
Quality Score
77 vs 79

Hardware

mistralai/devstral… qwen3.5-9b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mistralai/devstral… qwen3.5-9b
Tokens/sec5.720.4
First chunk5007 ms3034 ms
TTFT5.0 s3.0 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage13.2 GB5.6 GB
Memory %41%17%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mistralai/devstral-smal…

Speed
11/50
TTFT
9/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.5-9b

Speed
41/50
TTFT
14/20
Memory
29/30

Quality

mistralai/devstral-smal…

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
14/15
Math
6/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5-9b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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