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smollm2-135m-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

llama · 135M · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Good

Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
38 vs 77
Hardware Fit
98 vs 67
Quality Score
12 vs 81

Hardware

smollm2-135m-instr… qwen3.5-9b-mlx
MachineLENOVO 20BUS00700Mac mini
CPUIntel Core™ i5-5300UApple M4 Pro
Cores414
RAM16 GB64 GB
GPUIntel(R) HD Graphics 5500Apple M4 Pro
OSMicrosoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045macOS 15.7.4
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

smollm2-135m-instr… qwen3.5-9b-mlx
Tokens/sec39.320.3
First chunk573 ms4216 ms
TTFT573 ms4.2 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage0.1 GB5.6 GB
Memory %1%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2-135m-instruct

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

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed
29/50
TTFT
8/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

smollm2-135m-instruct

Reasoning
2/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
5/20
Structured
3/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
1/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
14/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest