smollm2-360m-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 360M · bf16

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

mlx-community/meta-llama-3.1-8b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score

52 vs 77

Hardware Fit

100 vs 100

Quality Score

32 vs 67

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirMac mini

CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro

Cores1014

RAM32 GB64 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.7.4

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec121.154.3

First chunk106 ms277 ms

TTFT106 ms277 ms

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage0.7 GB4.2 GB

Memory %2%7%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2-360m-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

mlx-community/meta-llam…

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/meta-llam…

Reasoning

11/20

Coding

14/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

15/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

9/10

Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

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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