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qwen3.5:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 4.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

Global Score
83 vs 85
Hardware Fit
100 vs 95
Quality Score
76 vs 80

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b qwen3.5:9b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Pro
CPUApple M1 MaxApple M1 Max
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M1 MaxApple M1 Max
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:4b qwen3.5:9b
Tokens/sec32.423.1
First chunk306 ms358 ms
TTFT306 ms358 ms
Load time2.7 s3.6 s
Memory usage6.5 GB9.1 GB
Memory %20%28%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b

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

qwen3.5:9b

Speed
45/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3.5:4b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5:9b

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

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest