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smollm2-360m-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 360M · bf16

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen2.5:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.5B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 16, 2026 · Intel Core™ i7-4771

Global Score
52 vs 65
Hardware Fit
100 vs 92
Quality Score
32 vs 54

Hardware

smollm2-360m-instr… qwen2.5:1.5b
MachineMacBook AiriMac
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i7-4771
Cores108
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.7.3
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

smollm2-360m-instr… qwen2.5:1.5b
Tokens/sec121.119.6
First chunk106 ms690 ms
TTFT106 ms690 ms
Load timeN/A21.4 s
Memory usage0.7 GB1.0 GB
Memory %2%3%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2-360m-instruct

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

qwen2.5:1.5b

Speed
42/50
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

qwen2.5:1.5b

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
13/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Adequate

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