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mistral-small:24b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 23.6B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-X925

starling-lm:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
75 vs 63
Hardware Fit
64 vs 97
Quality Score
80 vs 49

Hardware

mistral-small:24b starling-lm:7b
MachineNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_SparkMacBook Air
CPUCortex-X925Apple M4
Cores2010
RAM122 GB32 GB
GPUDevice 2e12Apple M4
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

mistral-small:24b starling-lm:7b
Tokens/sec14.323.7
First chunk327 msN/A
TTFT327 ms234 ms
Load time12.0 s0.4 s
Memory usage18.5 GB5.3 GB
Memory %15%17%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mistral-small:24b

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

starling-lm:7b

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

Quality

mistral-small:24b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
13/15
Math
9/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

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

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest