Back to leaderboard

text-embedding-nomic-embed-text-v1.5

LM-STUDIO GGUF

nomic-bert · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

starcoder2:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

starcoder2 · 3B · Q4_0

Not Rec.

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
59 vs 39
Hardware Fit
94 vs 100
Quality Score
44 vs 13

Hardware

text-embedding-nom… starcoder2:3b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

text-embedding-nom… starcoder2:3b
Tokens/sec45.349.4
First chunk2440 msN/A
TTFT2.4 s155 ms
Load timeN/A0.4 s
Memory usage0.0 GB3.0 GB
Memory %0%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

text-embedding-nomic-em…

Speed
40/50
TTFT
25/20
Memory
29/30

starcoder2:3b

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

Quality

text-embedding-nomic-em…

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
3/20
Instruction
11/20
Structured
12/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

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
View text-embedding-nom… details | View starcoder2:3b details

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