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qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

mistralai/devstral-small-2-2512

LM-STUDIO MLX

mistral3 · 24B · 4bit

Good

Oct 20, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
59 vs 73
Hardware Fit
65 vs 64
Quality Score
57 vs 77

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b-mlx mistralai/devstral…
MachineMac miniMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro
Cores1010
RAM24 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.6.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b-mlx mistralai/devstral…
Tokens/sec14.311.9
First chunk24 ms7 ms
TTFT13.4 s1.1 s
Load time13.3 sN/A
Memory usage2.5 GB19.7 GB
Memory %10%62%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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

mistralai/devstral-smal…

Speed
25/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
19/30

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

mistralai/devstral-smal…

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
14/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

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