ministral-3:8b
OLLAMA GGUFmistral3 · 8.9B · Q4_K_M
Jun 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro
starling-lm:7b
OLLAMA GGUFllama · 7B · Q4_0
Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4
Global Score
79 vs 65
Hardware Fit
98 vs 96
Quality Score
71 vs 52
Hardware
ministral-3:8b starling-lm:7b
MachineMac miniMacBook Air
CPUApple M4 ProApple M4
Cores1210
RAM24 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M4
OSmacOS 15.6.1macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
ministral-3:8b starling-lm:7b
Tokens/sec41.423.8
First chunk257 ms232 ms
TTFT257 ms232 ms
Load time5.2 s0.4 s
Memory usage9.0 GB5.3 GB
Memory %38%17%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
ministral-3:8b
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
28/30
starling-lm:7b
Speed
46/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30
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
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
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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest