microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

hf.co/LiquidAI/LFM2.5-2.6B-GGUF:F16

OLLAMA GGUF

lfm2 · 2.7B · unknown

Good

Aug 23, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score

64 vs 61

Hardware Fit

100 vs 97

Quality Score

48 vs 46

Hardware

microsoft/phi-4-mi… hf.co/LiquidAI/LFM…

MachineMac miniMacBook Pro

CPUApple M4 ProApple M1 Pro

Cores1410

RAM64 GB16 GB

GPUApple M4 ProApple M1 Pro

OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 26.6.2

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

microsoft/phi-4-mi… hf.co/LiquidAI/LFM…

Tokens/sec90.331.4

First chunk198 ms138 ms

TTFT198 ms138 ms

Load timeN/A3.7 s

Memory usage2.0 GB6.6 GB

Memory %3%41%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

hf.co/LiquidAI/LFM2.5-2…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

27/30

Quality

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Reasoning

7/20

Coding

7/20

Instruction

7/20

Structured

7/15

Math

13/15

Multilingual

7/10

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

hf.co/LiquidAI/LFM2.5-2…

Reasoning

14/20

Coding

13/20

Instruction

3/20

Structured

0/15

Math

14/15

Multilingual

2/10

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

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