mistral:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

orca-mini:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 3B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

73 vs 47

Hardware Fit

96 vs 100

Quality Score

63 vs 24

Hardware

mistral:latest orca-mini:3b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mistral:latest orca-mini:3b

Tokens/sec22.530.6

First chunkN/AN/A

TTFT257 ms126 ms

Load time0.6 s0.4 s

Memory usage10.1 GB2.6 GB

Memory %32%8%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mistral:latest

Speed

36/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

orca-mini:3b

Speed

40/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

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

orca-mini:3b

Reasoning

2/20

Coding

2/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

3/15

Math

1/15

Multilingual

3/10

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

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest

$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest