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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 3B · 4bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

llama3.2:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 3.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Feb 28, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score

73 vs 73

Hardware Fit

100 vs 100

Quality Score

61 vs 61

Hardware

qwen2.5-coder-3b-i… llama3.2:latest

MachineMacBook AirMac Mini

CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro

Cores1014

RAM32 GB64 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.7.4

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

qwen2.5-coder-3b-i… llama3.2:latest

Tokens/sec52.398.9

First chunk285 msN/A

TTFT285 ms125 ms

Load timeN/A2.3 s

Memory usage1.6 GB22.1 GB

Memory %5%35%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-coder-3b-instru…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

llama3.2:latest

Speed

40/50

TTFT

30/20

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

llama3.2:latest

Reasoning

11/20

Coding

14/20

Instruction

12/20

Structured

12/15

Math

3/15

Multilingual

9/10

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