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qwen2.5-coder-3b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 3B · 4bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

microllm-250m:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 256.74M · F16

Not Rec.

Jul 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
73 vs 34
Hardware Fit
100 vs 100
Quality Score
61 vs 6

Hardware

qwen2.5-coder-3b-i… microllm-250m:latest
MachineMacBook AirMac mini
CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
Cores1012
RAM32 GB24 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.5.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5-coder-3b-i… microllm-250m:latest
Tokens/sec52.3291.6
First chunk285 ms50 ms
TTFT285 ms79 ms
Load timeN/A0.0 s
Memory usage1.6 GB0.6 GB
Memory %5%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-coder-3b-instru…

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

microllm-250m:latest

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

Quality

qwen2.5-coder-3b-instru…

Reasoning
7/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
14/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

microllm-250m:latest

Reasoning
1/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
5/20
Structured
0/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
0/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor

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