lmstudio-community/Phi-4-reasoning-plus-MLX-4bit

LM-STUDIO GGUF

Not Rec.

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

hf.co/LiquidAI/LFM2.5-2.6B-GGUF:F16

OLLAMA GGUF

lfm2 · 2.7B · unknown

Good

Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score

33 vs 61

Hardware Fit

74 vs 97

Quality Score

15 vs 46

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro

CPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro

Cores1010

RAM32 GB16 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.6.2

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec11.531.0

First chunk670 ms129 ms

TTFT670 ms129 ms

Load timeN/A3.5 s

Memory usage3.0 GB6.6 GB

Memory %9%41%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

lmstudio-community/Phi-…

Speed

24/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

hf.co/LiquidAI/LFM2.5-2…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

27/30

Quality

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Reasoning

8/20

Coding

1/20

Instruction

1/20

Structured

1/15

Math

1/15

Multilingual

3/10

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

hf.co/LiquidAI/LFM2.5-2…

Reasoning

14/20

Coding

13/20

Instruction

3/20

Structured

0/15

Math

14/15

Multilingual

2/10

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

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