mistral:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

nous-hermes2:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 11B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

72 vs 68

Hardware Fit

95 vs 87

Quality Score

62 vs 60

Hardware

mistral:7b nous-hermes2:latest

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec22.015.9

First chunkN/AN/A

TTFT261 ms345 ms

Load time0.7 s0.4 s

Memory usage10.1 GB6.6 GB

Memory %32%21%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mistral:7b

Speed

35/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

nous-hermes2:latest

Speed

27/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

mistral:7b

Reasoning

8/20

Coding

12/20

Instruction

15/20

Structured

14/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

nous-hermes2:latest

Reasoning

11/20

Coding

9/20

Instruction

12/20

Structured

15/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

9/10

Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak 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