lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

lfm2 · 1.2B · 8bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

mistralai/devstral-small-2-2512

LM-STUDIO MLX

mistral3 · 24B · 4bit

Good

Oct 20, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score

68 vs 73

Hardware Fit

100 vs 64

Quality Score

54 vs 77

Hardware

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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

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Tokens/sec77.311.9

First chunk177 ms7 ms

TTFT177 ms1.1 s

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage1.2 GB19.7 GB

Memory %4%62%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

mistralai/devstral-smal…

Speed

25/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

19/30

Quality

lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx

Reasoning

10/20

Coding

7/20

Instruction

16/20

Structured

12/15

Math

1/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

mistralai/devstral-smal…

Reasoning

17/20

Coding

16/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

14/15

Math

7/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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