ministral-3:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

mistral3 · 3.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 8, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

71 vs 34

Hardware Fit

99 vs 58

Quality Score

59 vs 23

Hardware

ministral-3:3b qwen3.5:latest

MachineMacBook AirMac mini

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB16 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

ministral-3:3b qwen3.5:latest

Tokens/sec42.213.3

First chunk189 ms438 ms

TTFT189 ms19.8 s

Load time1.2 s0.2 s

Memory usage7.0 GB8.0 GB

Memory %22%50%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

ministral-3:3b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

29/30

qwen3.5:latest

Speed

32/50

TTFT

1/20

Memory

25/30

Quality

ministral-3:3b

Reasoning

5/20

Coding

16/20

Instruction

11/20

Structured

14/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

qwen3.5:latest

Reasoning

6/20

Coding

1/20

Instruction

3/20

Structured

0/15

Math

5/15

Multilingual

8/10

Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor 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