mlx-community/Yi-1.5-6B-Chat-4bit

LM-STUDIO GGUF

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

mistralai/magistral-small-2509

LM-STUDIO MLX

mistral3 · 24B · 4bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

73 vs 74

Hardware Fit

100 vs 66

Quality Score

62 vs 78

Hardware

mlx-community/Yi-1… mistralai/magistra…

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mlx-community/Yi-1… mistralai/magistra…

Tokens/sec29.17.9

First chunk451 ms1356 ms

TTFT451 ms1.4 s

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage0.9 GB13.2 GB

Memory %3%41%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mlx-community/Yi-1.5-6B…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

mistralai/magistral-sma…

Speed

16/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

mlx-community/Yi-1.5-6B…

Reasoning

10/20

Coding

11/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

13/15

Math

9/15

Multilingual

6/10

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

mistralai/magistral-sma…

Reasoning

14/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

15/15

Math

7/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest

$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest