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yi-coder:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.8B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

starling-lm:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
70 vs 65
Hardware Fit
89 vs 96
Quality Score
62 vs 52

Hardware

yi-coder:9b starling-lm:7b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

yi-coder:9b starling-lm:7b
Tokens/sec19.423.8
First chunk287 ms232 ms
TTFT287 ms232 ms
Load time0.7 s0.4 s
Memory usage9.6 GB5.3 GB
Memory %30%17%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

yi-coder:9b

Speed
39/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

starling-lm:7b

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

Quality

yi-coder:9b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
7/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Weak Math: Weak Multilingual: Adequate

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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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest