#local-llms
Top 5 local LLMs:
1. GLM-4.5-air: best agentic/coding model that runs on consumer hardware at very decent speeds. Rivals Claude 4-sonnet.
2. Nousresearch/hermes-70B: the only model that will do whatever you ask, and tell you whatever you want to know. Literally critical to have.
3. GPT-OSS-120B: very intelligent it’s like having 4o at home, great context window, great agent
4. Qwen3-coder-30B-3A-instruct: very good coding agent, excellent workhorse, incredibly fast
5. Mistral-magistral-small: very fast, excellent agent, great coder, multimodal, punches way, way, above its size.
I would be okay never using a proprietary llm, although given the subsidised compute I will continue to use them since I’m getting free leverage.
