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LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 14B · 5bit

Not Rec.

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.6:35b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

May 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
36 vs 70
Hardware Fit
53 vs 66
Quality Score
28 vs 71

Hardware

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MachineMac miniMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
Cores1014
RAM24 GB48 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.4.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec10.330.6
First chunk27 ms304 ms
TTFT20.7 s30.0 s
Load time15.4 s10.0 s
Memory usage1.0 GB28.1 GB
Memory %4%59%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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Speed
23/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.6:35b

Speed
45/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
21/30

Quality

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Reasoning
3/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
3/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.6:35b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
12/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
6/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest