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

LM-STUDIO GGUF
Not Rec.

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

mlx-community/Yi-1.5-6B-Chat-4bit

LM-STUDIO GGUF
Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
33 vs 73
Hardware Fit
74 vs 100
Quality Score
15 vs 62

Hardware

lmstudio-community… mlx-community/Yi-1…
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

lmstudio-community… mlx-community/Yi-1…
Tokens/sec11.529.1
First chunk670 ms451 ms
TTFT670 ms451 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage3.0 GB0.9 GB
Memory %9%3%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

lmstudio-community/Phi-…

Speed
24/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

mlx-community/Yi-1.5-6B…

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

Quality

lmstudio-community/Phi-…

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

mlx-community/Yi-1.5-6B…

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
11/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
13/15
Math
9/15
Multilingual
6/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Adequate

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest