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ministral-3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

mistral3 · 8.9B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3.5:35b-a3b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
79 vs 59
Hardware Fit
98 vs 69
Quality Score
71 vs 54

Hardware

ministral-3:8b qwen3.5:35b-a3b
MachineMac miniMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4 ProApple M4 Pro
Cores1214
RAM24 GB48 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 15.6.1macOS 26.3.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

ministral-3:8b qwen3.5:35b-a3b
Tokens/sec41.430.5
First chunk257 ms333 ms
TTFT257 ms30.0 s
Load time5.2 s9.8 s
Memory usage9.0 GB25.1 GB
Memory %38%52%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

ministral-3:8b

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

qwen3.5:35b-a3b

Speed
45/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
24/30

Quality

ministral-3:8b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
13/15
Math
6/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5:35b-a3b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
7/20
Structured
6/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak 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