phi4-mini

OLLAMA GGUF

Not Rec.

Aug 28, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-10210U

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 4B · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score

51 vs 62

Hardware Fit

46 vs 35

Quality Score

53 vs 73

Hardware

phi4-mini qwen3.5-4b-mlx

MachineLENOVO 20U30029MBMac mini

CPUIntel Core™ i5-10210UApple M4 Pro

Cores814

RAM15 GB64 GB

GPUCometLake-U GT2 [UHD Graphics]Apple M4 Pro

OSPop 24.04 LTSmacOS 15.7.4

Archx64arm64

Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

phi4-mini qwen3.5-4b-mlx

Tokens/sec2.60.0

First chunk5406 ms5548 ms

TTFT5.4 s5.5 s

Load time27.4 sN/A

Memory usage4.6 GB2.9 GB

Memory %30%5%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi4-mini

Speed

6/50

TTFT

10/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

Speed

0/50

TTFT

6/20

Memory

29/30

Quality

phi4-mini

Reasoning

11/20

Coding

9/20

Instruction

6/20

Structured

12/15

Math

5/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

Reasoning

17/20

Coding

17/20

Instruction

9/20

Structured

8/15

Math

13/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest