qwen3.5-2b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 2B · 4bit

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

unsloth-phi-4

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score

65 vs 82

Hardware Fit

88 vs 88

Quality Score

55 vs 80

Hardware

qwen3.5-2b-mlx unsloth-phi-4

MachineMac miniMac mini

CPUApple M4 ProApple M4 Pro

Cores1414

RAM64 GB64 GB

GPUApple M4 ProApple M4 Pro

OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 15.7.4

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-2b-mlx unsloth-phi-4

Tokens/sec48.927.4

First chunk4208 ms457 ms

TTFT4.2 s457 ms

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage1.6 GB7.7 GB

Memory %3%12%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

Speed

50/50

TTFT

8/20

Memory

30/30

unsloth-phi-4

Speed

38/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

Reasoning

10/20

Coding

7/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

14/15

Math

3/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

unsloth-phi-4

Reasoning

15/20

Coding

19/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

13/15

Math

9/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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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