mistralai/devstral-small-2-2512

LM-STUDIO MLX

mistral3 · 24B · 4bit

Good

Oct 20, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 9B · Q4_K_S

Not Rec.

Mar 14, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

73 vs 72

Hardware Fit

64 vs 51

Quality Score

77 vs 81

Hardware

mistralai/devstral… qwen3.5-9b

MachineMacBook ProMacBook Air

CPUApple M1 ProApple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M1 ProApple M4

OSmacOS 15.6.1macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mistralai/devstral… qwen3.5-9b

Tokens/sec11.914.4

First chunk7 ms4 ms

TTFT1.1 s824 ms

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage19.7 GB48.3 GB

Memory %62%151%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mistralai/devstral-smal…

Speed

25/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

19/30

qwen3.5-9b

Speed

31/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

0/30

Quality

mistralai/devstral-smal…

Reasoning

17/20

Coding

16/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

14/15

Math

7/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

qwen3.5-9b

Reasoning

16/20

Coding

15/20

Instruction

16/20

Structured

15/15

Math

9/15

Multilingual

10/10

Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

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