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smollm2-360m-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 360M · bf16

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

lfm2.5-thinking:1.2b

OLLAMA GGUF

lfm2 · 1.2B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

May 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
52 vs 60
Hardware Fit
100 vs 80
Quality Score
32 vs 52

Hardware

smollm2-360m-instr… lfm2.5-thinking:1.2b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
Cores1014
RAM32 GB48 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.4.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

smollm2-360m-instr… lfm2.5-thinking:1.2b
Tokens/sec121.1227.0
First chunk106 ms60 ms
TTFT106 ms30.0 s
Load timeN/A0.7 s
Memory usage0.7 GB2.6 GB
Memory %2%6%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2-360m-instruct

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

lfm2.5-thinking:1.2b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
30/30

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

lfm2.5-thinking:1.2b

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
7/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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