smollm2-360m-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 360M · bf16

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

codellama:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

52 vs 63

Hardware Fit

100 vs 97

Quality Score

32 vs 49

Hardware

smollm2-360m-instr… codellama:7b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

smollm2-360m-instr… codellama:7b

Tokens/sec121.123.6

First chunk106 msN/A

TTFT106 ms297 ms

Load timeN/A0.9 s

Memory usage0.7 GB12.6 GB

Memory %2%39%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2-360m-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

codellama:7b

Speed

37/50

TTFT

30/20

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

codellama:7b

Reasoning

6/20

Coding

7/20

Instruction

12/20

Structured

13/15

Math

3/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest

$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest