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cogito:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 3.6B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

mistralai/magistral-small-2509

LM-STUDIO MLX

mistral3 · 24B · 4bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
67 vs 74
Hardware Fit
100 vs 66
Quality Score
53 vs 78

Hardware

cogito:3b mistralai/magistra…
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

cogito:3b mistralai/magistra…
Tokens/sec45.67.9
First chunk177 ms1356 ms
TTFT177 ms1.4 s
Load time0.8 sN/A
Memory usage7.0 GB13.2 GB
Memory %22%41%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

cogito:3b

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

mistralai/magistral-sma…

Speed
16/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

cogito:3b

Reasoning
6/20
Coding
8/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
15/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

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

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest