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phi4-mini:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

phi3 · 3.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Good

Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
74 vs 77
Hardware Fit
98 vs 67
Quality Score
63 vs 81

Hardware

phi4-mini:latest qwen3.5-9b-mlx
MachineNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit SuperMac mini
CPUCortex-A78AEApple M4 Pro
Cores614
RAM7 GB64 GB
GPUIntegrated / UnknownApple M4 Pro
OSUbuntu 22.04.5 LTSmacOS 15.7.4
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

phi4-mini:latest qwen3.5-9b-mlx
Tokens/sec18.420.3
First chunk1078 ms4216 ms
TTFT1.1 s4.2 s
Load time6.4 sN/A
Memory usage2.9 GB5.6 GB
Memory %39%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi4-mini:latest

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
28/30

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed
29/50
TTFT
8/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

phi4-mini:latest

Reasoning
13/20
Coding
11/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
11/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
14/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate 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