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

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Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen2.5-coder-1.5b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 1.5B · 8bit

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Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
73 vs 70
Hardware Fit
100 vs 100
Quality Score
62 vs 57

Hardware

mlx-community/Yi-1… qwen2.5-coder-1.5b…
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… qwen2.5-coder-1.5b…
Tokens/sec29.158.4
First chunk451 ms234 ms
TTFT451 ms234 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage0.9 GB1.5 GB
Memory %3%5%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mlx-community/Yi-1.5-6B…

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

qwen2.5-coder-1.5b-inst…

Speed
50/50
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

qwen2.5-coder-1.5b-inst…

Reasoning
9/20
Coding
12/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
12/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

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