mistralai/magistral-small-2509

mistral3 · 24B · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:27b

qwen35 · 27.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

20 vs 75

Hardware Fit

65 vs 67

Quality Score

0 vs 79

Hardware

mistralai/magistra… qwen3.5:27b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mistralai/magistra… qwen3.5:27b

Tokens/sec5.14.4

TTFT2.0 s1.1 s

Load time0.0 s13.2 s

Memory usage0.0 GB22.7 GB

Memory %0%71%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mistralai/magistral-sma…

Speed

8/40

TTFT

27/30

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5:27b

Speed

7/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

mistralai/magistral-sma…

Reasoning

0/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

0/20

Structured

0/15

Math

0/15

Multilingual

0/10

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

qwen3.5:27b

Reasoning

16/20

Coding

17/20

Instruction

9/20

Structured

15/15

Math

12/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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