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Every local AI, benchmarked.

Benchmarks, VRAM math, and real popularity for every model, tool, and GPU worth self-hosting - ranked, compared, and sized to your hardware.

59.7
Best open model
−3.4
Behind frontier
73
Run on 24 GB
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Local Intelligence Index

How the best models you can run locally stack up

Open-weight models you can self-host, ranked by Artificial Analysis benchmarks - including how they perform inside real coding agents, with the leading proprietary models shown for context.

open / local proprietary
1Claude Opus 5 (max)
63.1
2Claude Fable 5 (with fallback)
62.1
3GPT-5.6 Sol (max)
60.9
4Grok 4.6 (high)
60.9
5Kimi K3
59.7
6GLM-5.3 (max)
59.5
7Qwen3.8 Max
58.1
8Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B
57.7
9GLM-5.3-Flash
57.5
10Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
55.8
11DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
53.2
12GLM-5.2
52.6
13Qwen3.8 27B
52
Data from Artificial Analysis · updated 2026-08-29Explore all local models
Best model for your GPU

Pick your VRAM, get the best model that runs on it

The strongest model in each hardware tier - ranked by capability, sized to fit.

8 GBVRAM
RTX 4060 / laptopLing 3.0 Tiny7.9B · inclusionAI
24.5
24 GBVRAM
RTX 3090 / 4090G9v3-39A5B39B · ai9stars
34.0
48 GBVRAM
A6000 / dual 3090Nemotron 3 Super67.2B · nvidia
25.7
48 GB+VRAM
multi-GPU / serverQwen3.8 2.4T A95B2446.2B · Qwen
57.7

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