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microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

microllm-50m:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 49.31M · F16

Not Rec.

Jun 28, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
62 vs 28
Hardware Fit
99 vs 80
Quality Score
46 vs 5

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… microllm-50m:latest
MachineMacBook AirMac mini
CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
Cores1012
RAM32 GB24 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.6.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

microsoft/phi-4-mi… microllm-50m:latest
Tokens/sec40.31000000.0
First chunk289 ms50 ms
TTFT289 ms30.0 s
Load timeN/A0.3 s
Memory usage2.0 GB0.1 GB
Memory %6%1%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

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

microllm-50m:latest

Speed
50/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
30/30

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

microllm-50m:latest

Reasoning
0/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
5/20
Structured
0/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
0/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor
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