ministral-3:3b
OLLAMA GGUFmistral3 · 3.8B · Q4_K_M
Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4
starling-lm:7b
OLLAMA GGUFllama · 7B · Q4_0
Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4
Global Score
71 vs 63
Hardware Fit
99 vs 97
Quality Score
59 vs 49
Hardware
ministral-3:3b starling-lm:7b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
ministral-3:3b starling-lm:7b
Tokens/sec42.223.7
First chunk189 msN/A
TTFT189 ms234 ms
Load time1.2 s0.4 s
Memory usage7.0 GB5.3 GB
Memory %22%17%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
ministral-3:3b
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30
starling-lm:7b
Speed
37/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30
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
starling-lm:7b
Reasoning
11/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
3/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest