hf.co/LiquidAI/LFM2.5-2.6B-GGUF:F16

OLLAMA GGUF

lfm2 · 2.7B · unknown

Good

Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score

61 vs 64

Hardware Fit

97 vs 100

Quality Score

46 vs 48

Hardware

hf.co/LiquidAI/LFM… microsoft/phi-4-mi…

MachineMacBook ProMac mini

CPUApple M1 ProApple M4 Pro

Cores1014

RAM16 GB64 GB

GPUApple M1 ProApple M4 Pro

OSmacOS 26.6.2macOS 15.7.4

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

hf.co/LiquidAI/LFM… microsoft/phi-4-mi…

Tokens/sec31.090.3

First chunk129 ms198 ms

TTFT129 ms198 ms

Load time3.5 sN/A

Memory usage6.6 GB2.0 GB

Memory %41%3%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

hf.co/LiquidAI/LFM2.5-2…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

27/30

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

hf.co/LiquidAI/LFM2.5-2…

Reasoning

14/20

Coding

13/20

Instruction

3/20

Structured

0/15

Math

14/15

Multilingual

2/10

Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Poor

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Reasoning

7/20

Coding

7/20

Instruction

7/20

Structured

7/15

Math

13/15

Multilingual

7/10

Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Adequate

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