qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 9B · Q4_K_S

Not Rec.

Mar 14, 2026 · Apple M4

nous-hermes2:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 11B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

72 vs 68

Hardware Fit

51 vs 87

Quality Score

81 vs 60

Hardware

qwen3.5-9b nous-hermes2:latest

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-9b nous-hermes2:latest

Tokens/sec14.415.9

First chunk4 msN/A

TTFT824 ms345 ms

Load timeN/A0.4 s

Memory usage48.3 GB6.6 GB

Memory %151%21%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-9b

Speed

31/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

0/30

nous-hermes2:latest

Speed

27/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

qwen3.5-9b

Reasoning

16/20

Coding

15/20

Instruction

16/20

Structured

15/15

Math

9/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

nous-hermes2:latest

Reasoning

11/20

Coding

9/20

Instruction

12/20

Structured

15/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

9/10

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