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starling-lm:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

gpt-oss:20b

OLLAMA GGUF

gptoss · 20.9B · MXFP4

Excellent

May 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
65 vs 94
Hardware Fit
96 vs 92
Quality Score
52 vs 95

Hardware

starling-lm:7b gpt-oss:20b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
Cores1014
RAM32 GB48 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.4.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

starling-lm:7b gpt-oss:20b
Tokens/sec23.854.5
First chunk232 ms318 ms
TTFT232 ms2.9 s
Load time0.4 s4.0 s
Memory usage5.3 GB16.4 GB
Memory %17%34%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

starling-lm:7b

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

gpt-oss:20b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
13/20
Memory
29/30

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

gpt-oss:20b

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
15/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest