mistral:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7.2B · Q4_0

Good

Feb 28, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

72 vs 59

Hardware Fit

100 vs 65

Quality Score

60 vs 57

Hardware

mistral:latest qwen3.5-9b-mlx

MachineMac MiniMac mini

CPUApple M4 ProApple M4

Cores1410

RAM64 GB24 GB

GPUApple M4 ProApple M4

OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modeunknownbalanced

Performance

mistral:latest qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Tokens/sec54.314.3

First chunkN/A24 ms

TTFT124 ms13.4 s

Load time0.0 s13.3 s

Memory usage9.9 GB2.5 GB

Memory %15%10%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mistral:latest

Speed

40/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed

32/50

TTFT

3/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

mistral:latest

Reasoning

8/20

Coding

15/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

12/15

Math

3/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Reasoning

10/20

Coding

17/20

Instruction

5/20

Structured

9/15

Math

11/15

Multilingual

5/10

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

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest

$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest