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qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Aug 22, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

qwen2.5-coder-1.5b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 1.5B · 8bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
58 vs 70
Hardware Fit
79 vs 100
Quality Score
49 vs 57

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b qwen2.5-coder-1.5b…
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Air
CPUApple M1 ProApple M4
Cores1010
RAM16 GB32 GB
GPUApple M1 ProApple M4
OSmacOS 26.6.2macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:9b qwen2.5-coder-1.5b…
Tokens/sec22.158.4
First chunk601 ms234 ms
TTFT9.1 s234 ms
Load time4.2 sN/A
Memory usage7.2 GB1.5 GB
Memory %45%5%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b

Speed
48/50
TTFT
5/20
Memory
26/30

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

Quality

qwen3.5:9b

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
4/20
Instruction
5/20
Structured
6/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

qwen2.5-coder-1.5b-inst…

Reasoning
9/20
Coding
12/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
12/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor 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