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Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

phi-3.5-mini-instruct

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phi3 · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
45 vs 55
Hardware Fit
100 vs 100
Quality Score
21 vs 36

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec44.443.4
First chunk336 ms359 ms
TTFT336 ms359 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage0.1 GB2.0 GB
Memory %0%6%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mlx-community/quantized…

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

phi-3.5-mini-instruct

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

Quality

mlx-community/quantized…

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
4/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
1/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor

phi-3.5-mini-instruct

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
4/20
Instruction
7/20
Structured
1/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
6/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Weak Multilingual: Adequate
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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest