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smollm2:1.7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 1.7B · Q8_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

mistralai/devstral-small-2-2512

LM-STUDIO MLX

mistral3 · 24B · 4bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
64 vs 69
Hardware Fit
100 vs 50
Quality Score
49 vs 77

Hardware

smollm2:1.7b mistralai/devstral…
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

smollm2:1.7b mistralai/devstral…
Tokens/sec51.85.7
First chunkN/A5007 ms
TTFT84 ms5.0 s
Load time0.4 sN/A
Memory usage3.7 GB13.2 GB
Memory %12%41%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2:1.7b

Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

mistralai/devstral-smal…

Speed
11/50
TTFT
9/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

smollm2:1.7b

Reasoning
7/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
13/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
6/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

mistralai/devstral-smal…

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
14/15
Math
6/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest