ministral-3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

mistral3 · 8.9B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

orca-mini:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 3B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

76 vs 47

Hardware Fit

89 vs 100

Quality Score

71 vs 24

Hardware

ministral-3:8b orca-mini:3b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

ministral-3:8b orca-mini:3b

Tokens/sec19.530.6

First chunk328 msN/A

TTFT328 ms126 ms

Load time1.5 s0.4 s

Memory usage10.6 GB2.6 GB

Memory %33%8%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

ministral-3:8b

Speed

39/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

orca-mini:3b

Speed

40/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

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

orca-mini:3b

Reasoning

2/20

Coding

2/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

3/15

Math

1/15

Multilingual

3/10

Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak

View ministral-3:8b details | View orca-mini:3b details

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