qwen3.5:4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Marginal

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M2

mistral:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7.2B · Q4_0

Good

Feb 28, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score

53 vs 72

Hardware Fit

81 vs 100

Quality Score

41 vs 60

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b-mlx mistral:latest

MachineMac miniMac Mini

CPUApple M2Apple M4 Pro

Cores814

RAM8 GB64 GB

GPUApple M2Apple M4 Pro

OSmacOS 26.5.2macOS 15.7.4

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

qwen3.5:4b-mlx mistral:latest

Tokens/sec24.854.3

First chunk317 msN/A

TTFT7.4 s124 ms

Load time0.0 s0.0 s

Memory usage3.9 GB9.9 GB

Memory %49%15%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

Speed

50/50

TTFT

6/20

Memory

25/30

mistral:latest

Speed

40/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

Reasoning

13/20

Coding

2/20

Instruction

4/20

Structured

4/15

Math

10/15

Multilingual

8/10

Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Weak Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

mistral:latest

Reasoning

8/20

Coding

15/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

12/15

Math

3/15

Multilingual

9/10

Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest

$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest