cogito:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 3.6B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

tinyllama:1.1b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 1B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

67 vs 43

Hardware Fit

100 vs 100

Quality Score

53 vs 19

Hardware

cogito:3b tinyllama:1.1b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

cogito:3b tinyllama:1.1b

Tokens/sec45.6121.0

First chunk177 msN/A

TTFT177 ms82 ms

Load time0.8 s0.4 s

Memory usage7.0 GB0.7 GB

Memory %22%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

cogito:3b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

tinyllama:1.1b

Speed

40/50

TTFT

30/20

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

tinyllama:1.1b

Reasoning

2/20

Coding

1/20

Instruction

6/20

Structured

7/15

Math

0/15

Multilingual

3/10

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

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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