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microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

maternion/ling-3.0-tiny:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

bailingmoe3 · 7.9B · Q4_K_M

Good

Aug 26, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
62 vs 68
Hardware Fit
99 vs 98
Quality Score
46 vs 55

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… maternion/ling-3.0…
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

microsoft/phi-4-mi… maternion/ling-3.0…
Tokens/sec40.372.1
First chunk289 ms175 ms
TTFT289 ms175 ms
Load timeN/A3.6 s
Memory usage2.0 GB5.9 GB
Memory %6%37%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30

maternion/ling-3.0-tiny…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
28/30

Quality

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Reasoning
7/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
7/20
Structured
7/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Adequate

maternion/ling-3.0-tiny…

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
3/20
Structured
0/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
1/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Poor

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