diff --git a/bench/bench.toml b/bench/bench.toml
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+# Canary benchmark manifest
+#
+# Lists the suite files to include. Each file defines benchmarks
+# with shared constraints, topology, and default args.
+include = [
+    "single-m3-ultra.toml",
+]
diff --git a/bench/single-m3-ultra.toml b/bench/single-m3-ultra.toml
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+# Single-node M3 Ultra benchmarks
+#
+# Shared constraints applied to ALL benchmarks in this file.
+constraints = [
+    "All(MacOsBuild(=25D125))",
+    "Hosts(=1)",
+    "All(Chip(m3_ultra))",
+    "All(GpuCores(=80))",
+]
+
+[topology]
+type = "none"
+
+# Default args merged into each benchmark's args (benchmark-level args win).
+[defaults]
+pp = [512, 2048, 8192, 16384]
+tg = 128
+
+[[benchmark]]
+model = "mlx-community/Meta-Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct-4bit"
+extra_constraints = ["All(Memory(>=96GiB))"]
+
+[[benchmark]]
+model = "mlx-community/gpt-oss-120b-MXFP4-Q8"
+extra_constraints = ["All(Memory(>=96GiB))"]
+
+[[benchmark]]
+model = "mlx-community/GLM-4.7-Flash-8bit"
+extra_constraints = ["All(Memory(>=96GiB))"]
+
+[[benchmark]]
+model = "mlx-community/Qwen3-Coder-Next-6bit"
+extra_constraints = ["All(Memory(>=96GiB))"]
+
+[[benchmark]]
+model = "mlx-community/Qwen3-30B-A3B-8bit"
+extra_constraints = ["All(Memory(>=96GiB))"]
+
+[[benchmark]]
+model = "mlx-community/Qwen3-0.6B-4bit"
+extra_constraints = ["All(Memory(>=96GiB))"]
+
+[[benchmark]]
+model = "mlx-community/Qwen3-0.6B-8bit"
+extra_constraints = ["All(Memory(>=96GiB))"]
+
+[[benchmark]]
+model = "mlx-community/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct-4bit"
+extra_constraints = ["All(Memory(>=96GiB))"]
+
+[[benchmark]]
+model = "mlx-community/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct-4bit"
+extra_constraints = ["All(Memory(>=96GiB))"]
+
+[[benchmark]]
+model = "mlx-community/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct-8bit"
+extra_constraints = ["All(Memory(>=96GiB))"]
+
+[[benchmark]]
+model = "mlx-community/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-4bit"
+extra_constraints = ["All(Memory(>=96GiB))"]
+
+[[benchmark]]
+model = "mlx-community/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-8bit"
+extra_constraints = ["All(Memory(>=96GiB))"]
+
+[[benchmark]]
+model = "mlx-community/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-bf16"
+extra_constraints = ["All(Memory(>=96GiB))"]
+
+[[benchmark]]
+model = "mlx-community/gpt-oss-20b-MXFP4-Q8"
+extra_constraints = ["All(Memory(>=96GiB))"]
+
+[[benchmark]]
+model = "mlx-community/Qwen3-30B-A3B-4bit"
+extra_constraints = ["All(Memory(>=96GiB))"]
+
+[[benchmark]]
+model = "mlx-community/GLM-4.7-Flash-4bit"
+extra_constraints = ["All(Memory(>=96GiB))"]
+
+[[benchmark]]
+model = "mlx-community/GLM-4.7-Flash-5bit"
+extra_constraints = ["All(Memory(>=96GiB))"]
+
+[[benchmark]]
+model = "mlx-community/GLM-4.7-Flash-6bit"
+extra_constraints = ["All(Memory(>=96GiB))"]
+
+[[benchmark]]
+model = "mlx-community/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct-4bit"
+extra_constraints = ["All(Memory(>=96GiB))"]
+
+[[benchmark]]
+model = "mlx-community/Qwen3-Coder-Next-4bit"
+extra_constraints = ["All(Memory(>=96GiB))"]
+
+[[benchmark]]
+model = "mlx-community/Qwen3-Coder-Next-5bit"
+extra_constraints = ["All(Memory(>=96GiB))"]
+
+[[benchmark]]
+model = "mlx-community/Qwen3-Coder-Next-8bit"
+extra_constraints = ["All(Memory(>=96GiB))"]
+
+[[benchmark]]
+model = "mlx-community/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct-4bit"
+extra_constraints = ["All(Memory(>=96GiB))"]
+
+[[benchmark]]
+model = "mlx-community/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct-8bit"
+extra_constraints = ["All(Memory(>=96GiB))"]
+
+[[benchmark]]
+model = "mlx-community/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking-4bit"
+extra_constraints = ["All(Memory(>=96GiB))"]
+
+[[benchmark]]
+model = "mlx-community/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking-8bit"
+extra_constraints = ["All(Memory(>=96GiB))"]
+
+[[benchmark]]
+model = "mlx-community/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct-8bit"
+extra_constraints = ["All(Memory(>=256GiB))"]
+
+[[benchmark]]
+model = "mlx-community/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp16"
+extra_constraints = ["All(Memory(>=256GiB))"]
+
+[[benchmark]]
+model = "mlx-community/GLM-4.5-Air-8bit"
+extra_constraints = ["All(Memory(>=256GiB))"]
+
+[[benchmark]]
+model = "mlx-community/GLM-4.5-Air-bf16"
+extra_constraints = ["All(Memory(>=256GiB))"]
+
+[[benchmark]]
+model = "mlx-community/GLM-4.7-4bit"
+extra_constraints = ["All(Memory(>=256GiB))"]
+
+[[benchmark]]
+model = "mlx-community/MiniMax-M2.1-3bit"
+extra_constraints = ["All(Memory(>=256GiB))"]
+
+[[benchmark]]
+model = "mlx-community/MiniMax-M2.1-8bit"
+extra_constraints = ["All(Memory(>=256GiB))"]
+
+[[benchmark]]
+model = "mlx-community/Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507-4bit"
+extra_constraints = ["All(Memory(>=256GiB))"]
+
+[[benchmark]]
+model = "mlx-community/Qwen3-Coder-Next-bf16"
+extra_constraints = ["All(Memory(>=256GiB))"]
+
+[[benchmark]]
+model = "mlx-community/Step-3.5-Flash-4bit"
+extra_constraints = ["All(Memory(>=256GiB))"]
+
+[[benchmark]]
+model = "mlx-community/Step-3.5-Flash-6bit"
+extra_constraints = ["All(Memory(>=256GiB))"]
+
+[[benchmark]]
+model = "mlx-community/Step-3.5-Flash-8Bit"
+extra_constraints = ["All(Memory(>=256GiB))"]
+
+[[benchmark]]
+model = "mlx-community/DeepSeek-V3.1-4bit"
+extra_constraints = ["All(Memory(>=512GiB))"]
+
+[[benchmark]]
+model = "mlx-community/GLM-4.7-6bit"
+extra_constraints = ["All(Memory(>=512GiB))"]
+
+[[benchmark]]
+model = "mlx-community/GLM-4.7-8bit-gs32"
+extra_constraints = ["All(Memory(>=512GiB))"]
+
+[[benchmark]]
+model = "mlx-community/Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507-8bit"
+extra_constraints = ["All(Memory(>=512GiB))"]
+
+[[benchmark]]
+model = "mlx-community/Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct-4bit"
+extra_constraints = ["All(Memory(>=512GiB))"]