Qwen 3.8-27B: the free model that matches Claude's best from 6 months ago.
It dropped August 14th. 27 billion parameters. Tiny by AI standards. But it keeps pace with Opus 4.6 on coding, agent work, and reading images. → Apache 2.0 license, fully open → Runs on a Mac with
Qwen 3.8 27B running 2× faster on a local agentic harness is a pretty big deal.
Local agents live and die by iteration speed. If the model can reason, act, observe the result, and start the next step twice as fast, that adds up quickly over a long task.
Kimi K3 Qwen 3.8 Max
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0831 I am surprised that the performance of Qwen 3.8 Max is better than I expected. But it is the most expensive and takes a long time. DS V4 Pro failed.
Qwen 3.8 27b doing absurd things with ThreeJS.
If they weren’t labeled would you know which one was made locally on a 24gb card? Opus was still finishing when I cut it off at $5. New Gemini dirt cheap and not too bad, Grok solid. Not sure the local model lost here🤯
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