Best Local Qwen Models

Match · Updated July 2026

The best local Qwen model is Qwen3.6 27B (37.1 intelligence) — open weights on Hugging Face, small enough to run on your own hardware. Qwen3.5-27B (33.8) and Qwen3.5 397B A17B (33.7) round out the top three.

37.1Intelligence

$0.288Input /M

262KContext

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.

Frequently asked

What is the best local Qwen model?

What's a good alternative to Qwen3.6 27B?

Qwen3.5-27B (33.8) is the closest alternative on this metric, followed by Qwen3.5 397B A17B (33.7). See the full ranking above for the tradeoffs.

How many Qwen models are there?

modelgrep tracks 47 Qwen models with live benchmarks, speed, latency and per-provider pricing, led on intelligence by Qwen3.7 Max. 14 of them qualify for this ranking.

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