Best Local LLMs

The best local LLMs — open-weight models small enough to run on your own hardware with Ollama, llama.cpp or vLLM — ranked by intelligence. Frontier-scale open models (400B+) are excluded: downloadable isn't the same as runnable. Every model here is on Hugging Face.

1. 1
   minimax-m3

   ReasoningToolsJSON+144.4 intel · $0.300/M · 1.0M ctx
   44.4

   Intelligence
2. 2
   deepseek-v4-pro

   ReasoningToolsJSON44.3 intel · $0.435/M · 1.0M ctx
   44.3

   Intelligence
3. 3
   kimi-k2.6

   ReasoningToolsJSON+144.2 intel · $0.684/M · 262K ctx
   44.2

   Intelligence
4. 4
   mimo-v2.5-pro

   ReasoningToolsJSON42.2 intel · $0.435/M · 1.1M ctx
   42.2

   Intelligence
5. 5
   kimi-k2.7-code

   ReasoningToolsJSON+141.9 intel · $0.710/M · 262K ctx
   41.9

   Intelligence
6. 6
   hy3

   ReasoningToolsJSON41.2 intel · $0.132/M · 262K ctx
   41.2

   Intelligence
7. 7N
   nex-n2-pro

   ReasoningToolsVision41.0 intel · $0.250/M · 262K ctx
   41.0

   Intelligence
8. 8T
   inkling

   ReasoningToolsVision+140.7 intel · $1.00/M · 1.0M ctx
   40.7

   Intelligence
9. 9
   deepseek-v4-flash

   ReasoningToolsJSON40.3 intel · $0.098/M · 1.0M ctx
   40.3

   Intelligence
10. 10
    glm-5.1

    ReasoningToolsJSON40.2 intel · $0.966/M · 205K ctx
    40.2

    Intelligence
11. 11
    glm-5

    ReasoningToolsJSON39.5 intel · $0.950/M · 205K ctx
    39.5

    Intelligence
12. 12
    minimax-m2.7

    ReasoningToolsJSON38.1 intel · $0.250/M · 205K ctx
    38.1

    Intelligence
13. 13
    mimo-v2.5

    ReasoningToolsJSON+237.2 intel · $0.140/M · 1.1M ctx
    37.2

    Intelligence
14. 14
    qwen3.6-27b

    ReasoningToolsJSON+137.1 intel · $0.288/M · 262K ctx
    37.1

    Intelligence
15. 15
    kimi-k2.5

    ReasoningToolsJSON+135.4 intel · $0.570/M · 262K ctx
    35.4

    Intelligence
16. 16
    qwen3.5-27b

    ReasoningToolsJSON+133.8 intel · $0.195/M · 262K ctx
    33.8

    Intelligence
17. 17
    qwen3.5-397b-a17b

    ReasoningToolsJSON+133.7 intel · $0.390/M · 262K ctx
    33.7

    Intelligence
18. 18
    minimax-m2.5

    ReasoningToolsJSON33.7 intel · $0.150/M · 205K ctx
    33.7

    Intelligence
19. 19
    glm-4.7

    ReasoningToolsJSON33.7 intel · $0.400/M · 205K ctx
    33.7

    Intelligence
20. 20
    hy3-preview

    ReasoningTools33.6 intel · $0.063/M · 262K ctx
    33.6

    Intelligence
21. 21M
    longcat-2.0

    ReasoningTools33.5 intel · $0.300/M · 1.0M ctx
    33.5

    Intelligence
22. 22
    kimi-k2-thinking

    ReasoningToolsJSON32.7 intel · $0.600/M · 262K ctx
    32.7

    Intelligence
23. 23
    qwen3.5-122b-a10b

    ReasoningToolsJSON+132.3 intel · $0.260/M · 262K ctx
    32.3

    Intelligence
24. 24
    qwen3.6-35b-a3b

    ReasoningToolsJSON+131.6 intel · $0.140/M · 262K ctx
    31.6

    Intelligence
25. 25
    minimax-m2.1

    ReasoningToolsJSON31.4 intel · $0.300/M · 205K ctx
    31.4

    Intelligence