qwen3.5:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 4.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

mistralai/magistral-small-2509

LM-STUDIO MLX

mistral3 · 24B · 4bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

48 vs 74

Hardware Fit

77 vs 66

Quality Score

35 vs 78

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b mistralai/magistra…

MachineMac miniMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM16 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:4b mistralai/magistra…

Tokens/sec18.97.9

First chunk316 ms1356 ms

TTFT13.0 s1.4 s

Load time3.7 sN/A

Memory usage5.9 GB13.2 GB

Memory %37%41%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b

Speed

43/50

TTFT

4/20

Memory

30/30

mistralai/magistral-sma…

Speed

16/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

qwen3.5:4b

Reasoning

10/20

Coding

1/20

Instruction

4/20

Structured

3/15

Math

8/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

mistralai/magistral-sma…

Reasoning

14/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

15/15

Math

7/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest