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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

solar:10.7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 11B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
59 vs 63
Hardware Fit
65 vs 87
Quality Score
57 vs 52

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx solar:10.7b
MachineMac miniMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM24 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx solar:10.7b
Tokens/sec14.315.8
First chunk24 msN/A
TTFT13.4 s353 ms
Load time13.3 s0.4 s
Memory usage2.5 GB6.6 GB
Memory %10%21%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed
32/50
TTFT
3/20
Memory
30/30

solar:10.7b

Speed
27/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
5/20
Structured
9/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Adequate Math: Adequate Multilingual: Adequate

solar:10.7b

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
8/20
Instruction
11/20
Structured
14/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest