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starling-lm:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

tinyllama:1.1b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 1B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
65 vs 43
Hardware Fit
96 vs 100
Quality Score
52 vs 19

Hardware

starling-lm:7b tinyllama:1.1b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

starling-lm:7b tinyllama:1.1b
Tokens/sec23.8121.0
First chunk232 msN/A
TTFT232 ms82 ms
Load time0.4 s0.4 s
Memory usage5.3 GB0.7 GB
Memory %17%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

starling-lm:7b

Speed
46/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

tinyllama:1.1b

Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

starling-lm:7b

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
8/20
Structured
3/15
Math
9/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

tinyllama:1.1b

Reasoning
2/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
7/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
3/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak
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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest