Back to leaderboard

smollm2-360m-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 360M · bf16

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

deepseek-r1:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 7.6B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

Global Score
52 vs 22
Hardware Fit
100 vs 69
Quality Score
32 vs 2

Hardware

smollm2-360m-instr… deepseek-r1:latest
MachineMacBook AirNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit Super
CPUApple M4Cortex-A78AE
Cores106
RAM32 GB7 GB
GPUApple M4Integrated / Unknown
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

smollm2-360m-instr… deepseek-r1:latest
Tokens/sec121.19.6
First chunk106 ms1300 ms
TTFT106 ms1.3 s
Load timeN/A19.9 s
Memory usage0.7 GB4.8 GB
Memory %2%65%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2-360m-instruct

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

deepseek-r1:latest

Speed
31/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
18/30

Quality

smollm2-360m-instruct

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
3/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
7/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
4/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Weak Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak

deepseek-r1:latest

Reasoning
0/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
0/20
Structured
0/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
0/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor
View smollm2-360m-instr… details | View deepseek-r1:latest 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