microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

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

OLLAMA GGUF

lfm2 · 2.7B · unknown

Good

Aug 23, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score

62 vs 61

Hardware Fit

99 vs 97

Quality Score

46 vs 46

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… hf.co/LiquidAI/LFM…

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… hf.co/LiquidAI/LFM…

Tokens/sec40.331.4

First chunk289 ms138 ms

TTFT289 ms138 ms

Load timeN/A3.7 s

Memory usage2.0 GB6.6 GB

Memory %6%41%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

29/30

hf.co/LiquidAI/LFM2.5-2…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

27/30

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

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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