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qwen2.5-coder-1.5b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 1.5B · 8bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 9B · Q4_K_S

Not Rec.

Mar 14, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
70 vs 72
Hardware Fit
100 vs 51
Quality Score
57 vs 81

Hardware

qwen2.5-coder-1.5b… qwen3.5-9b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5-coder-1.5b… qwen3.5-9b
Tokens/sec58.414.4
First chunk234 ms4 ms
TTFT234 ms824 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage1.5 GB48.3 GB
Memory %5%151%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-coder-1.5b-inst…

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

qwen3.5-9b

Speed
31/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
0/30

Quality

qwen2.5-coder-1.5b-inst…

Reasoning
9/20
Coding
12/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
12/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

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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$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest