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qwen2.5-coder:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.5B · Q4_K_M

Good

Aug 28, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-10210U

starling-lm:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
68 vs 63
Hardware Fit
100 vs 97
Quality Score
54 vs 49

Hardware

qwen2.5-coder:1.5b starling-lm:7b
MachineLENOVO 20U30029MBMacBook Air
CPUIntel Core™ i5-10210UApple M4
Cores810
RAM15 GB32 GB
GPUCometLake-U GT2 [UHD Graphics]Apple M4
OSPop 24.04 LTSmacOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modelow-powerbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5-coder:1.5b starling-lm:7b
Tokens/sec21.823.7
First chunk499 msN/A
TTFT499 ms234 ms
Load time4.4 s0.4 s
Memory usage1.5 GB5.3 GB
Memory %10%17%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-coder:1.5b

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

starling-lm:7b

Speed
37/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen2.5-coder:1.5b

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
11/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
11/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

starling-lm:7b

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
3/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest