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ministral-3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

mistral3 · 8.9B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen2.5-math-1.5b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 1.5B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
76 vs 45
Hardware Fit
89 vs 99
Quality Score
71 vs 22

Hardware

ministral-3:8b qwen2.5-math-1.5b-…
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec19.591.7
First chunk328 ms205 ms
TTFT328 ms205 ms
Load time1.5 sN/A
Memory usage10.6 GB0.8 GB
Memory %33%3%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

ministral-3:8b

Speed
39/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

qwen2.5-math-1.5b-instr…

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

Quality

ministral-3:8b

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

qwen2.5-math-1.5b-instr…

Reasoning
2/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
3/20
Structured
1/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
2/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Poor

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest