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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 3B · 4bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

liquid/lfm2-24b-a2b

LM-STUDIO MLX

lfm2_moe · 24B · 4bit

Good

Mar 19, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

73 vs 74

Hardware Fit

100 vs 84

Quality Score

61 vs 69

Hardware

qwen2.5-coder-3b-i… liquid/lfm2-24b-a2b

MachineMacBook AirMac mini

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB24 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5-coder-3b-i… liquid/lfm2-24b-a2b

Tokens/sec52.358.9

First chunk285 ms28 ms

TTFT285 ms481 ms

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage1.6 GB17.5 GB

Memory %5%73%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-coder-3b-instru…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

liquid/lfm2-24b-a2b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

14/30

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

liquid/lfm2-24b-a2b

Reasoning

11/20

Coding

12/20

Instruction

16/20

Structured

13/15

Math

8/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

View qwen2.5-coder-3b-i… details | View liquid/lfm2-24b-a2b details

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