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smollm2:1.7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 1.7B · Q8_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

exaone-3.5-2.4b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

exaone · 2.4B · 8bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
64 vs 75
Hardware Fit
100 vs 100
Quality Score
49 vs 64

Hardware

smollm2:1.7b exaone-3.5-2.4b-in…
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 exaone-3.5-2.4b-in…
Tokens/sec51.837.0
First chunkN/A288 ms
TTFT84 ms288 ms
Load time0.4 sN/A
Memory usage3.7 GB2.4 GB
Memory %12%8%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2:1.7b

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

exaone-3.5-2.4b-instruc…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
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

exaone-3.5-2.4b-instruc…

Reasoning
9/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
14/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak 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