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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 3B · 4bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

exaone-3.5-2.4b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

exaone · 2.4B · 8bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
73 vs 75
Hardware Fit
100 vs 100
Quality Score
61 vs 64

Hardware

qwen2.5-coder-3b-i… exaone-3.5-2.4b-in…
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5-coder-3b-i… exaone-3.5-2.4b-in…
Tokens/sec52.337.0
First chunk285 ms288 ms
TTFT285 ms288 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage1.6 GB2.4 GB
Memory %5%8%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-coder-3b-instru…

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

exaone-3.5-2.4b-instruc…

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

exaone-3.5-2.4b-instruc…

Reasoning
9/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
14/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong 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