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liquid/lfm2-24b-a2b

LM-STUDIO MLX

lfm2_moe · 24B · 4bit

Good

Mar 19, 2026 · Apple M4

smollm2:360m

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 361.82M · F16

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
74 vs 52
Hardware Fit
84 vs 100
Quality Score
69 vs 32

Hardware

liquid/lfm2-24b-a2b smollm2:360m
MachineMac miniMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM24 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

liquid/lfm2-24b-a2b smollm2:360m
Tokens/sec58.9117.9
First chunk28 msN/A
TTFT481 ms43 ms
Load timeN/A0.4 s
Memory usage17.5 GB1.2 GB
Memory %73%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

liquid/lfm2-24b-a2b

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

smollm2:360m

Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

liquid/lfm2-24b-a2b

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
12/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
13/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

smollm2:360m

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
9/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
3/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest