gpt-oss-120b review: one of the best local models we've tested
It scored 96 out of 100, #2 of 56. It solved 28 of 30 coding jobs and scored 99 on reading documents. Runs on a Mac with 96 GB.
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Muse Glimmer 30B review: one of the best local models we've tested
It scored 94 out of 100, #3 of 56. It solved 27 of 30 coding jobs and scored 98 on reading documents. Runs on a 24 GB graphics card or a Mac with 32 GB.
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Ling 3.0 Flash review: a solid all-rounder
It scored 94 out of 100, #4 of 56. It solved 28 of 30 coding jobs and scored 95 on reading documents. Runs on a Mac with 128 GB.
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GLM 4.5V review: a solid all-rounder
It scored 93 out of 100, #5 of 56. It solved 26 of 30 coding jobs and scored 99 on reading documents. Runs on a Mac with 96 GB.
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Ling 3.0 Flash VL review: a solid all-rounder
It scored 92 out of 100, #6 of 56. It solved 26 of 30 coding jobs and scored 98 on reading documents. Runs on a Mac with 128 GB.
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Laguna XS 2.1 review: a solid all-rounder
It scored 82 out of 100, #12 of 56. It solved 22 of 30 coding jobs and scored 91 on reading documents. Runs on a 24 GB graphics card or a Mac with 48 GB.
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GLM 4.5 Air review: decent, with trade-offs
It scored 76 out of 100, #18 of 56. It solved 21 of 30 coding jobs and scored 82 on reading documents. Runs on a Mac with 96 GB.
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GLM 4.6V review: decent, with trade-offs
It scored 73 out of 100, #19 of 56. It solved 22 of 30 coding jobs and scored 73 on reading documents. Runs on a Mac with 96 GB.
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Laguna S 2.1 review: decent, with trade-offs
It scored 64 out of 100, #25 of 56. It solved 21 of 30 coding jobs and scored 59 on reading documents. Runs on a Mac with 128 GB.
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Nex-N2.5-Mini review: not one we'd recommend right now
It scored 57 out of 100, #27 of 56. It solved 8 of 30 coding jobs and scored 88 on reading documents. Runs on a 24 GB graphics card or a Mac with 48 GB.
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Devstral 2 2512 review: not one we'd recommend right now
It scored 53 out of 100, #28 of 56. It solved 16 of 30 coding jobs and scored 53 on reading documents. Runs on a Mac with 128 GB.
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Hunyuan A13B Instruct review: not one we'd recommend right now
It scored 52 out of 100, #29 of 56. It solved 11 of 30 coding jobs and scored 67 on reading documents. Runs on a Mac with 96 GB.
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Qwen2.5 72B Instruct review: not one we'd recommend right now
It scored 46 out of 100, #31 of 56. It solved 12 of 30 coding jobs and scored 52 on reading documents. Runs on a Mac with 64 GB.
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Llama 3.3 70B Instruct review: not one we'd recommend right now
It scored 46 out of 100, #33 of 56. It solved 14 of 30 coding jobs and scored 45 on reading documents. Runs on a Mac with 64 GB.
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Command A review: not one we'd recommend right now
It scored 45 out of 100, #34 of 56. It solved 10 of 30 coding jobs and scored 56 on reading documents. Runs on a Mac with 96 GB.
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Llama 3.1 70B Instruct review: not one we'd recommend right now
It scored 39 out of 100, #41 of 56. It solved 10 of 30 coding jobs and scored 44 on reading documents. Runs on a Mac with 64 GB.
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Llama 3.3 8B Instruct (Q4, Mac) review: not one we'd recommend right now
It scored 23 out of 100, #47 of 56. It solved 4 of 30 coding jobs and scored 33 on reading documents. Runs on an 8 GB graphics card or a Mac with 16 GB.
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Granite 4.0 Micro (Q4, Mac) review: not one we'd recommend right now
It scored 22 out of 100, #49 of 56. It solved 4 of 30 coding jobs and scored 31 on reading documents. Runs on an 8 GB graphics card or a Mac with 16 GB.
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Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct review: not one we'd recommend right now
It scored 14 out of 100, #53 of 56. It solved 4 of 30 coding jobs and scored 14 on reading documents. Runs on a Mac with 64 GB.
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Reka Edge review: not one we'd recommend right now
It scored 8 out of 100, #54 of 56. It solved 0 of 30 coding jobs and scored 16 on reading documents. Runs on an 8 GB graphics card or a Mac with 16 GB.
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Llama 3.2 1B Instruct (Q4, Mac) review: not one we'd recommend right now
It scored 5 out of 100, #56 of 56. It solved 0 of 30 coding jobs and scored 9 on reading documents. Runs on an 8 GB graphics card or a Mac with 16 GB.
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Qwen3.6 27B review: one of the best local models we've tested
It scored 97 out of 100, #1 of 56. It solved 29 of 30 coding jobs and scored 97 on reading documents. Runs on a 24 GB graphics card or a Mac with 32 GB.
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gpt-oss-20b review: a solid all-rounder
It scored 88 out of 100, #7 of 56. It solved 27 of 30 coding jobs and scored 87 on reading documents. Runs on a 16 GB graphics card or a Mac with 24 GB.
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Qwen3.5-27B review: a solid all-rounder
It scored 88 out of 100, #8 of 56. It solved 23 of 30 coding jobs and scored 100 on reading documents. Runs on a 24 GB graphics card or a Mac with 32 GB.
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Qwen3.8 27B review: a solid all-rounder
It scored 88 out of 100, #9 of 56. It solved 23 of 30 coding jobs and scored 99 on reading documents. Runs on a 24 GB graphics card or a Mac with 32 GB.
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Qwen3.5-35B-A3B review: a solid all-rounder
It scored 88 out of 100, #10 of 56. It solved 24 of 30 coding jobs and scored 95 on reading documents. Runs on a 24 GB graphics card or a Mac with 48 GB.
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Qwen3.6 35B A3B review: a solid all-rounder
It scored 86 out of 100, #11 of 56. It solved 24 of 30 coding jobs and scored 93 on reading documents. Runs on a 24 GB graphics card or a Mac with 48 GB.
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Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B review: a solid all-rounder
It scored 80 out of 100, #13 of 56. It solved 21 of 30 coding jobs and scored 91 on reading documents. Runs on a 24 GB graphics card or a Mac with 32 GB.
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Gemma 4 31B review: great at code, weaker with documents
It scored 79 out of 100, #14 of 56. It solved 28 of 30 coding jobs and scored 65 on reading documents. Runs on a 32 GB graphics card or a Mac with 48 GB.
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Granite 4.2 8B review: decent, with trade-offs
It scored 77 out of 100, #15 of 56. It solved 23 of 30 coding jobs and scored 78 on reading documents. Runs on an 8 GB graphics card or a Mac with 16 GB.
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Qwen3 30B A3B review: decent, with trade-offs
It scored 77 out of 100, #16 of 56. It solved 20 of 30 coding jobs and scored 87 on reading documents. Runs on a 24 GB graphics card or a Mac with 32 GB.
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Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking review: reads documents well, weaker at code
It scored 77 out of 100, #17 of 56. It solved 18 of 30 coding jobs and scored 93 on reading documents. Runs on a 24 GB graphics card or a Mac with 32 GB.
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Qwen3 14B review: decent, with trade-offs
It scored 72 out of 100, #20 of 56. It solved 19 of 30 coding jobs and scored 81 on reading documents. Runs on a 12 GB graphics card or a Mac with 24 GB.
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GLM 4.7 Flash review: decent, with trade-offs
It scored 72 out of 100, #21 of 56. It solved 22 of 30 coding jobs and scored 70 on reading documents. Runs on a 24 GB graphics card or a Mac with 48 GB.
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Qwen3.5-9B review: reads documents well, weaker at code
It scored 72 out of 100, #22 of 56. It solved 14 of 30 coding jobs and scored 97 on reading documents. Runs on an 8 GB graphics card or a Mac with 16 GB.
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Gemma 4 26B A4B review: decent, with trade-offs
It scored 70 out of 100, #23 of 56. It solved 25 of 30 coding jobs and scored 58 on reading documents. Runs on a 24 GB graphics card or a Mac with 32 GB.
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Qwen3 32B review: decent, with trade-offs
It scored 64 out of 100, #24 of 56. It solved 15 of 30 coding jobs and scored 79 on reading documents. Runs on a 24 GB graphics card or a Mac with 48 GB.
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Nemotron 3.5 Lightning review: not one we'd recommend right now
It scored 57 out of 100, #26 of 56. It solved 13 of 30 coding jobs and scored 72 on reading documents. Runs on a 24 GB graphics card or a Mac with 32 GB.
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Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct review: not one we'd recommend right now
It scored 51 out of 100, #30 of 56. It solved 17 of 30 coding jobs and scored 46 on reading documents. Runs on a 24 GB graphics card or a Mac with 32 GB.
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Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct review: not one we'd recommend right now
It scored 46 out of 100, #32 of 56. It solved 13 of 30 coding jobs and scored 49 on reading documents. Runs on a 24 GB graphics card or a Mac with 32 GB.
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Ministral 3 14B 2512 review: not one we'd recommend right now
It scored 44 out of 100, #35 of 56. It solved 13 of 30 coding jobs and scored 45 on reading documents. Runs on a 12 GB graphics card or a Mac with 16 GB.
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Mistral Small 3.2 24B review: not one we'd recommend right now
It scored 44 out of 100, #36 of 56. It solved 12 of 30 coding jobs and scored 47 on reading documents. Runs on a 24 GB graphics card or a Mac with 32 GB.
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Mistral Small 3 review: not one we'd recommend right now
It scored 41 out of 100, #37 of 56. It solved 11 of 30 coding jobs and scored 45 on reading documents. Runs on a 24 GB graphics card or a Mac with 32 GB.
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Gemma 3 27B review: not one we'd recommend right now
It scored 40 out of 100, #38 of 56. It solved 10 of 30 coding jobs and scored 46 on reading documents. Runs on a 24 GB graphics card or a Mac with 32 GB.
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Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 review: not one we'd recommend right now
It scored 40 out of 100, #39 of 56. It solved 10 of 30 coding jobs and scored 46 on reading documents. Runs on a 24 GB graphics card or a Mac with 32 GB.
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Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct review: not one we'd recommend right now
It scored 39 out of 100, #40 of 56. It solved 11 of 30 coding jobs and scored 41 on reading documents. Runs on an 8 GB graphics card or a Mac with 16 GB.
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Ministral 3 8B 2512 review: not one we'd recommend right now
It scored 37 out of 100, #42 of 56. It solved 9 of 30 coding jobs and scored 43 on reading documents. Runs on an 8 GB graphics card or a Mac with 16 GB.
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Gemma 3 12B review: not one we'd recommend right now
It scored 35 out of 100, #43 of 56. It solved 9 of 30 coding jobs and scored 40 on reading documents. Runs on a 12 GB graphics card or a Mac with 16 GB.
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Phi 4 review: not one we'd recommend right now
It scored 25 out of 100, #44 of 56. It solved 7 of 30 coding jobs and scored 26 on reading documents. Runs on a 12 GB graphics card or a Mac with 24 GB.
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Qwen2.5 7B Instruct review: not one we'd recommend right now
It scored 24 out of 100, #45 of 56. It solved 3 of 30 coding jobs and scored 37 on reading documents. Runs on an 8 GB graphics card or a Mac with 16 GB.
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Gemma 2 27B review: not one we'd recommend right now
It scored 23 out of 100, #46 of 56. It solved 4 of 30 coding jobs and scored 34 on reading documents. Runs on a 24 GB graphics card or a Mac with 32 GB.
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Mistral Nemo review: not one we'd recommend right now
It scored 23 out of 100, #48 of 56. It solved 3 of 30 coding jobs and scored 36 on reading documents. Runs on a 12 GB graphics card or a Mac with 16 GB.
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Ministral 3 3B 2512 review: not one we'd recommend right now
It scored 21 out of 100, #50 of 56. It solved 3 of 30 coding jobs and scored 32 on reading documents. Runs on an 8 GB graphics card or a Mac with 16 GB.
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Llama 3.1 8B Instruct review: not one we'd recommend right now
It scored 15 out of 100, #51 of 56. It solved 1 of 30 coding jobs and scored 26 on reading documents. Runs on an 8 GB graphics card or a Mac with 16 GB.
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Gemma 3 4B review: not one we'd recommend right now
It scored 14 out of 100, #52 of 56. It solved 1 of 30 coding jobs and scored 25 on reading documents. Runs on an 8 GB graphics card or a Mac with 16 GB.
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Llama 3.2 3B Instruct review: not one we'd recommend right now
It scored 6 out of 100, #55 of 56. It solved 0 of 30 coding jobs and scored 13 on reading documents. Runs on an 8 GB graphics card or a Mac with 16 GB.
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