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ministral-3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

mistral3 · 8.9B · Q4_K_M

Good

Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

liquid/lfm2-24b-a2b

LM-STUDIO MLX

lfm2_moe · 24B · 4bit

Good

Apr 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
72 vs 74
Hardware Fit
71 vs 84
Quality Score
72 vs 69

Hardware

ministral-3:8b liquid/lfm2-24b-a2b
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 liquid/lfm2-24b-a2b
Tokens/sec19.851.8
First chunk269 ms10 ms
TTFT269 ms503 ms
Load time10.7 sN/A
Memory usage13.7 GB17.5 GB
Memory %86%73%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

ministral-3:8b

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

liquid/lfm2-24b-a2b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
14/30

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

liquid/lfm2-24b-a2b

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
12/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
13/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest