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smollm2-1.7b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1.7B · bf16

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

ministral-3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

mistral3 · 8.9B · Q4_K_M

Good

Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
65 vs 72
Hardware Fit
99 vs 71
Quality Score
51 vs 72

Hardware

smollm2-1.7b-instr… ministral-3:8b
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

smollm2-1.7b-instr… ministral-3:8b
Tokens/sec28.519.8
First chunk393 ms269 ms
TTFT393 ms269 ms
Load timeN/A10.7 s
Memory usage3.2 GB13.7 GB
Memory %10%86%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

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

ministral-3:8b

Speed
44/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
7/30

Quality

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
11/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

ministral-3:8b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
13/15
Math
6/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest