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mistral:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 4bit

Good

Oct 20, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
70 vs 78
Hardware Fit
94 vs 56
Quality Score
60 vs 87

Hardware

mistral:7b qwen3.8-27b-mlx
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.6.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mistral:7b qwen3.8-27b-mlx
Tokens/sec22.510.8
First chunk252 ms8 ms
TTFT252 ms2.6 s
Load time0.7 sN/A
Memory usage10.1 GB21.0 GB
Memory %32%66%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mistral:7b

Speed
44/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Speed
23/50
TTFT
16/20
Memory
17/30

Quality

mistral:7b

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
12/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
14/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

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