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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

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 9B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
83 vs 72
Hardware Fit
100 vs 89
Quality Score
76 vs 65

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b qwen3.5-9b
MachineMacBook ProMac mini
CPUApple M1 MaxApple M4 Pro
Cores1014
RAM32 GB64 GB
GPUApple M1 MaxApple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.7.4
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:4b qwen3.5-9b
Tokens/sec32.428.9
First chunk306 ms338 ms
TTFT306 ms338 ms
Load time2.7 sN/A
Memory usage6.5 GB6.1 GB
Memory %20%10%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b

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

qwen3.5-9b

Speed
39/50
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
17/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
7/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest