qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Aug 22, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

mistral:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

58 vs 73

Hardware Fit

79 vs 96

Quality Score

49 vs 63

Hardware

qwen3.5:9b mistral:latest

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 mistral:latest

Tokens/sec22.122.5

First chunk601 msN/A

TTFT9.1 s257 ms

Load time4.2 s0.6 s

Memory usage7.2 GB10.1 GB

Memory %45%32%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:9b

Speed

48/50

TTFT

5/20

Memory

26/30

mistral:latest

Speed

36/50

TTFT

30/20

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

mistral:latest

Reasoning

8/20

Coding

12/20

Instruction

15/20

Structured

14/15

Math

5/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest