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ministral-3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

mistral3 · 8.9B · Q4_K_M

Good

Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

gemma4:26b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 25.8B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
72 vs 85
Hardware Fit
71 vs 77
Quality Score
72 vs 89

Hardware

ministral-3:8b gemma4:26b
MachineMacBook ProMac mini
CPUApple M1 ProApple M4
Cores1010
RAM16 GB24 GB
GPUApple M1 ProApple M4
OSmacOS 26.6.2macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

ministral-3:8b gemma4:26b
Tokens/sec19.824.5
First chunk269 ms1481 ms
TTFT269 ms1.5 s
Load time10.7 s24.7 s
Memory usage13.7 GB20.3 GB
Memory %86%85%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

ministral-3:8b

Speed
44/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
7/30

gemma4:26b

Speed
49/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
8/30

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

gemma4:26b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
14/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest