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smollm2-360m-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 360M · bf16

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

mlx-community/stablelm-2-zephyr-1_6b-4bit

LM-STUDIO GGUF
Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
52 vs 50
Hardware Fit
100 vs 100
Quality Score
32 vs 29

Hardware

smollm2-360m-instr… mlx-community/stab…
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec121.193.6
First chunk106 ms166 ms
TTFT106 ms166 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage0.7 GB0.7 GB
Memory %2%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2-360m-instruct

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

mlx-community/stablelm-…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
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

mlx-community/stablelm-…

Reasoning
7/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
3/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
4/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak
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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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