Back to leaderboard

lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

lfm2 · 1.2B · 8bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

mlx-community/quantized-gemma-2b-it

LM-STUDIO GGUF
Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
68 vs 45
Hardware Fit
100 vs 100
Quality Score
54 vs 21

Hardware

lfm2.5-1.2b-instru… mlx-community/quan…
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

lfm2.5-1.2b-instru… mlx-community/quan…
Tokens/sec77.344.4
First chunk177 ms336 ms
TTFT177 ms336 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage1.2 GB0.1 GB
Memory %4%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx

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

mlx-community/quantized…

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

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

mlx-community/quantized…

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
4/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
1/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor
View lfm2.5-1.2b-instru… details | View mlx-community/quan… details

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