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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 1.5B · 8bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen2.5-coder:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 7.6B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i7-13700K

Global Score

70 vs 68

Hardware Fit

100 vs 59

Quality Score

57 vs 72

Hardware

qwen2.5-coder-1.5b… qwen2.5-coder:7b

MachineMacBook AirASUS

CPUApple M4Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i7-13700K

Cores1024

RAM32 GB64 GB

GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

qwen2.5-coder-1.5b… qwen2.5-coder:7b

Tokens/sec58.434.4

First chunk234 ms1991 ms

TTFT234 ms2.0 s

Load timeN/A40.6 s

Memory usage1.5 GB5.0 GB

Memory %5%8%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-coder-1.5b-inst…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen2.5-coder:7b

Speed

38/50

TTFT

12/20

Memory

9/30

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

qwen2.5-coder:7b

Reasoning

11/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

12/20

Structured

13/15

Math

9/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest

$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest