Back to leaderboard

starling-lm:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

smollm2-135m-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

llama · 135M · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

Global Score
65 vs 38
Hardware Fit
96 vs 98
Quality Score
52 vs 12

Hardware

starling-lm:7b smollm2-135m-instr…
MachineMacBook AirLENOVO 20BUS00700
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-5300U
Cores104
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4Intel(R) HD Graphics 5500
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

starling-lm:7b smollm2-135m-instr…
Tokens/sec23.839.3
First chunk232 ms573 ms
TTFT232 ms573 ms
Load time0.4 sN/A
Memory usage5.3 GB0.1 GB
Memory %17%1%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

starling-lm:7b

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

smollm2-135m-instruct

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
28/30

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

smollm2-135m-instruct

Reasoning
2/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
5/20
Structured
3/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
1/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor
View starling-lm:7b details | View smollm2-135m-instr… details

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest