starling-lm:7b
OLLAMA GGUFllama · 7B · Q4_0
Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4
qwen3.6:27b
OLLAMA GGUFqwen35 · 27.8B · Q4_K_M
Jun 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro
Global Score
63 vs 20
Hardware Fit
97 vs 34
Quality Score
49 vs 14
Hardware
starling-lm:7b qwen3.6:27b
MachineMacBook AirMac mini
CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
Cores1012
RAM32 GB24 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.6.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
starling-lm:7b qwen3.6:27b
Tokens/sec23.710.6
First chunkN/A1344 ms
TTFT234 ms30.0 s
Load time0.4 s0.2 s
Memory usage5.3 GB18.1 GB
Memory %17%75%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
starling-lm:7b
Speed
37/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30
qwen3.6:27b
Speed
22/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
12/30
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
qwen3.6:27b
Reasoning
2/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
2/20
Structured
1/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
6/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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$
npm install -g metrillm@latest$
metrillmRequires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running
Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest