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starcoder2:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

starcoder2 · 3B · Q4_0

Not Rec.

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5-27b-claude-4.6-opus-distilled-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 10, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
39 vs 34
Hardware Fit
100 vs 21
Quality Score
13 vs 39

Hardware

starcoder2:3b qwen3.5-27b-claude…
MachineMacBook AirMac mini
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB24 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

starcoder2:3b qwen3.5-27b-claude…
Tokens/sec49.46.1
First chunkN/A7 ms
TTFT155 ms22.9 s
Load time0.4 sN/A
Memory usage3.0 GB19.8 GB
Memory %9%82%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

starcoder2:3b

Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.5-27b-claude-4.6-…

Speed
12/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
9/30

Quality

starcoder2:3b

Reasoning
0/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
5/20
Structured
2/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
2/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor

qwen3.5-27b-claude-4.6-…

Reasoning
1/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
5/20
Structured
8/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

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