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exaone-3.5-2.4b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

exaone · 2.4B · 8bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
75 vs 58
Hardware Fit
100 vs 68
Quality Score
64 vs 54

Hardware

exaone-3.5-2.4b-in… qwen3.5-9b-mlx
MachineMacBook AirMac mini
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB24 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

exaone-3.5-2.4b-in… qwen3.5-9b-mlx
Tokens/sec37.016.7
First chunk288 ms23 ms
TTFT288 ms14.1 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage2.4 GB7.8 GB
Memory %8%33%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

exaone-3.5-2.4b-instruc…

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

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed
36/50
TTFT
3/20
Memory
29/30

Quality

exaone-3.5-2.4b-instruc…

Reasoning
9/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
14/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
4/20
Structured
9/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Adequate Math: Adequate Multilingual: Adequate

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest