phi4-mini:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

phi3 · 3.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

vicuna:13b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 13B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

71 vs 59

Hardware Fit

100 vs 84

Quality Score

58 vs 48

Hardware

phi4-mini:latest vicuna:13b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

phi4-mini:latest vicuna:13b

Tokens/sec36.213.4

First chunkN/AN/A

TTFT190 ms438 ms

Load time0.8 s0.6 s

Memory usage8.3 GB10.3 GB

Memory %26%32%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi4-mini:latest

Speed

40/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

vicuna:13b

Speed

24/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

phi4-mini:latest

Reasoning

12/20

Coding

10/20

Instruction

10/20

Structured

11/15

Math

5/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

vicuna:13b

Reasoning

7/20

Coding

5/20

Instruction

12/20

Structured

13/15

Math

3/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

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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