Back to leaderboard

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

qwen3_5 · 2B · 8bit

Marginal

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

meta-llama-3.1-8b-instruct

llama · 8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
49 vs 76
Hardware Fit
83 vs 95
Quality Score
35 vs 68

Hardware

qwen3.5-2b-mlx meta-llama-3.1-8b-…
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-2b-mlx meta-llama-3.1-8b-…
Tokens/sec18.621.6
TTFT2.9 s512 ms
Load time0.0 s0.0 s
Memory usage0.0 GB0.0 GB
Memory %0%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

Speed
31/40
TTFT
22/30
Memory
30/30

meta-llama-3.1-8b-instr…

Speed
35/40
TTFT
30/30
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

Reasoning
0/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
4/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Weak Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

meta-llama-3.1-8b-instr…

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
14/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
View qwen3.5-2b-mlx details | View meta-llama-3.1-8b-… details

Run yours and compare

npx metrillm@latest bench

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running