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smollm2-135m-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

llama · 135M · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

llama3.1:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
38 vs 72
Hardware Fit
98 vs 77
Quality Score
12 vs 70

Hardware

smollm2-135m-instr… llama3.1:8b
MachineLENOVO 20BUS00700MacBook Pro
CPUIntel Core™ i5-5300UApple M1 Pro
Cores410
RAM16 GB16 GB
GPUIntel(R) HD Graphics 5500Apple M1 Pro
OSMicrosoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045macOS 26.6.2
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

smollm2-135m-instr… llama3.1:8b
Tokens/sec39.321.5
First chunk573 ms368 ms
TTFT573 ms368 ms
Load timeN/A6.9 s
Memory usage0.1 GB12.9 GB
Memory %1%81%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2-135m-instruct

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

llama3.1:8b

Speed
47/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
10/30

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

llama3.1:8b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
13/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest