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smollm2-360m-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 360M · bf16

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

tinyllama-1.1b-chat-v1.0

LM-STUDIO GGUF

llama · 1.1B · Q3_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

Global Score
52 vs 33
Hardware Fit
100 vs 76
Quality Score
32 vs 14

Hardware

smollm2-360m-instr… tinyllama-1.1b-cha…
MachineMacBook AirLENOVO 20BUS00700
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-5300U
Cores104
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4Intel(R) HD Graphics 5500
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

smollm2-360m-instr… tinyllama-1.1b-cha…
Tokens/sec121.19.9
First chunk106 ms3166 ms
TTFT106 ms3.2 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage0.7 GB0.5 GB
Memory %2%3%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2-360m-instruct

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

tinyllama-1.1b-chat-v1.0

Speed
32/50
TTFT
16/20
Memory
28/30

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

tinyllama-1.1b-chat-v1.0

Reasoning
2/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
2/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
2/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor

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