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qwen3.5:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 4.2B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Oct 12, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
50 vs 81
Hardware Fit
93 vs 84
Quality Score
31 vs 79

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b qwen3.5-9b
MachineMicrosoft WSLMacBook Air
CPUAMD Ryzen 5 5500Apple M4
Cores1210
RAM8 GB32 GB
GPUIntegrated / UnknownApple M4
OSUbuntu 26.04.1 LTSmacOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modeunknownbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:4b qwen3.5-9b
Tokens/sec92.620.4
First chunk323 ms3034 ms
TTFT2.8 s3.0 s
Load time9.0 sN/A
Memory usage2.9 GB5.6 GB
Memory %38%17%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
15/20
Memory
28/30

qwen3.5-9b

Speed
41/50
TTFT
14/20
Memory
29/30

Quality

qwen3.5:4b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
0/20
Structured
0/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
0/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Poor

qwen3.5-9b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

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