ministral-3:8b
OLLAMA GGUFmistral3 · 8.9B · Q4_K_M
Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro
qwen3.8-27b-mlx
LM-STUDIO UNKNOWN27B
Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max
Global Score
72 vs 66
Hardware Fit
71 vs 91
Quality Score
72 vs 55
Hardware
ministral-3:8b qwen3.8-27b-mlx
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Pro
CPUApple M1 ProApple M5 Max
Cores1018
RAM16 GB64 GB
GPUApple M1 ProApple M5 Max
OSmacOS 26.6.2macOS 27.0
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
ministral-3:8b qwen3.8-27b-mlx
Tokens/sec19.833.2
First chunk269 ms7 ms
TTFT269 ms311 ms
Load time10.7 sN/A
Memory usage13.7 GB0.5 GB
Memory %86%1%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
ministral-3:8b
Speed
44/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
7/30
qwen3.8-27b-mlx
Speed
41/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30
Quality
ministral-3:8b
Reasoning
12/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
13/15
Math
6/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
qwen3.8-27b-mlx
Reasoning
19/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
0/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
3/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Weak
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$
npm install -g metrillm@latest$
metrillmRequires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running
Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest