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starling-lm:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 4.7B · Q4_K_M

Good

Aug 23, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
63 vs 69
Hardware Fit
97 vs 86
Quality Score
49 vs 62

Hardware

starling-lm:7b qwen3.5:4b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro
Cores1010
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.6.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

starling-lm:7b qwen3.5:4b
Tokens/sec23.736.7
First chunkN/A207 ms
TTFT234 ms6.6 s
Load time0.4 s3.0 s
Memory usage5.3 GB5.3 GB
Memory %17%33%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

starling-lm:7b

Speed
37/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.5:4b

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

Quality

starling-lm:7b

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
3/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5:4b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
9/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest