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mistralai/devstral-small-2-2512

LM-STUDIO MLX

mistral3 · 24B · 4bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

starling-lm:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
69 vs 65
Hardware Fit
50 vs 96
Quality Score
77 vs 52

Hardware

mistralai/devstral… starling-lm:7b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mistralai/devstral… starling-lm:7b
Tokens/sec5.723.8
First chunk5007 ms232 ms
TTFT5.0 s232 ms
Load timeN/A0.4 s
Memory usage13.2 GB5.3 GB
Memory %41%17%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mistralai/devstral-smal…

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

starling-lm:7b

Speed
46/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

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

starling-lm:7b

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