[locusofself]

Are there local models that are anywhere near as good at coding as opus 4.6?

[jasonjmcghee]

People will insist otherwise, but I haven't seen anything close to sonnet 4.6 that can be run locally.

[Incipient]

I don't think anyone can honestly say a huge frontier model is actually going to be matched by something running on 64gb locally?

[jasonjmcghee]

I have read many comments saying Qwen3.5 various ~30B models, Gemma 4 ~30B models and now Qwen3.6 "better than sonnet".

I don't know how large sonnet and opus are but the rumor is 1T and 5T respectively.

[urig]

You don't have to use the most recent bleeding edge model to succeed. A local FOSS coding agent coupled with a reasonably priced LLM could yield the optimal ROI.

[kadoban]

Not really. Qwen 3.5 and Gemma and a couple of others are quite good though, and the quants are _very_ runnable on a good gpu.