qwen3.5:4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Marginal

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M2

nous-hermes2:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 11B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

53 vs 68

Hardware Fit

82 vs 87

Quality Score

41 vs 60

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b-mlx nous-hermes2:latest

MachineMac miniMacBook Air

CPUApple M2Apple M4

Cores810

RAM8 GB32 GB

GPUApple M2Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.5.2macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:4b-mlx nous-hermes2:latest

Tokens/sec24.715.9

First chunk302 msN/A

TTFT7.4 s345 ms

Load time3.2 s0.4 s

Memory usage3.8 GB6.6 GB

Memory %47%21%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

Speed

50/50

TTFT

6/20

Memory

26/30

nous-hermes2:latest

Speed

27/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

Reasoning

13/20

Coding

2/20

Instruction

4/20

Structured

4/15

Math

10/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

nous-hermes2:latest

Reasoning

11/20

Coding

9/20

Instruction

12/20

Structured

15/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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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