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Compare Local AI Models

Open chat, reasoning and coding models side by side — size, context window, 4-bit memory, deployment and license. Bigger isn’t always better: the right model is the largest one that runs comfortably on hardware you’re willing to own.

Cheap / single office

A 7–8B model (Llama 3.1 8B, Qwen3 8B, Mistral 7B) on a 12GB GPU or mini PC. Great first assistant.

Balanced / small team

A 14–32B model (Qwen2.5 14–32B, Mistral Small 24B) on a 16–24GB GPU. Real RAG, coding and automation.

Powerful / department

A 70B model (Llama 3.3 70B, Qwen2.5 72B) on a 48GB card, big Mac, or multi-GPU. Near-frontier quality, private.

Frontier / hybrid

MoE giants or hosted APIs for the hardest jobs — burst to these from a local base in a hybrid setup.

ModelTypeParamsContextVRAM @ Q4DeploymentLicense
Qwen2.5 0.5BGeneral LLM~0.5B32K~0.4GBlocalApache-2.0
Llama 3.2 1BGeneral LLM~1B128K~1GBlocalLlama Community License
Qwen2.5 1.5BGeneral LLM~1.5B32K~1GBlocalApache-2.0
DeepSeek-R1 Distill 1.5BReasoning~1.5B128K~1.5GBlocalMIT
Qwen2.5-Coder 1.5BCoding LLM~1.5B32K~1GBlocalApache-2.0
SmolLM2 1.7BGeneral LLM~1.7B8K~1.1GBlocalApache-2.0
Gemma 2 2BGeneral LLM~2B8K~1.6GBlocalGemma Terms of Use
Granite 3 2BGeneral LLM~2B128K~1.6GBlocalApache-2.0
Llama 3.2 3BGeneral LLM~3B128K~2.5GBlocalLlama Community License
Qwen2.5 3BGeneral LLM~3B32K~2.2GBlocalQwen Research License
StarCoder2 3BCoding LLM~3B16K~2.2GBlocalBigCode OpenRAIL-M
Phi-3.5 Mini (3.8B)General LLM~3.8B128K~2.5GBlocalMIT
Gemma 3 4BGeneral LLM~4B128K~3GBlocalGemma Terms of Use
Qwen2.5 7BGeneral LLM~7B128K~5.5GBlocalApache-2.0
Mistral 7BGeneral LLM~7B32K~5GBlocalApache-2.0
Qwen2.5-Coder 7BCoding LLM~7B128K~5.5GBlocalApache-2.0
CodeLlama 7BCoding LLM~7B16K~5GBlocalLlama Community License
StarCoder2 7BCoding LLM~7B16K~5GBlocalBigCode OpenRAIL-M
Qwen2.5 7B InstructGeneral LLM~7.6B33K~4.9GBlocalapache-2.0
Qwen2.5 Coder 7B InstructCoding LLM~7.6B131K~4.9GBlocalapache-2.0
Llama 3.1 8BGeneral LLM~8B128K~6GBlocalLlama Community License
Qwen3 8BGeneral LLM~8B128K~6GBlocalApache-2.0
Granite 3 8BGeneral LLM~8B128K~6GBlocalApache-2.0
DeepSeek-R1 Distill 8BReasoning~8B128K~6GBlocalMIT
Gemma 2 9BGeneral LLM~9B8K~7GBlocalGemma Terms of Use
Gemma 3 12BGeneral LLM~12B128K~8GBlocalGemma Terms of Use
Mistral Nemo 12BGeneral LLM~12B128K~8GBlocalApache-2.0
CodeLlama 13BCoding LLM~13B16K~8GBlocalLlama Community License
Qwen2.5 14BGeneral LLM~14B128K~10GBlocalApache-2.0
Qwen3 14BGeneral LLM~14B128K~10GBlocalApache-2.0
Phi-3 Medium (14B)General LLM~14B128K~9GBlocalMIT
Phi-4 (14B)General LLM~14B16K~9GBlocalMIT
DeepSeek-R1 Distill 14BReasoning~14B128K~10GBlocalMIT
Qwen2.5-Coder 14BCoding LLM~14B128K~10GBlocalApache-2.0
StarCoder2 15BCoding LLM~15B16K~10GBlocalBigCode OpenRAIL-M
DeepSeek-Coder V2 (class)Coding LLM~16B128K~11GBlocalDeepSeek License
Mistral Small 24BGeneral LLM~24B32K~14GBlocalApache-2.0
Gemma 2 27BGeneral LLM~27B8K~17GBlocalGemma Terms of Use
Gemma 3 27BGeneral LLM~27B128K~17GBhybridGemma Terms of Use
Qwen2.5 32BGeneral LLM~32B128K~20GBhybridApache-2.0
Qwen3 32BGeneral LLM~32B128K~20GBhybridApache-2.0
DeepSeek-R1 Distill 32BReasoning~32B128K~20GBhybridMIT
Qwen2.5-Coder 32BCoding LLM~32B128K~20GBhybridApache-2.0
CodeLlama 34BCoding LLM~34B16K~21GBhybridLlama Community License
Mixtral 8x7B (MoE)General LLM~47B32K~28GBhybridApache-2.0
Llama 3.1 70BGeneral LLM~70B128K~42GBhybridLlama Community License
Llama 3.3 70BGeneral LLM~70B128K~42GBhybridLlama Community License
DeepSeek-R1 Distill Llama 70BReasoning~70B128K~42GBhybridMIT
Qwen2.5 72BGeneral LLM~72B128K~44GBhybridQwen License
Qwen3 235B-A22B (MoE)General LLM~235B128K~130GBcloudApache-2.0
Llama 3.1 405BGeneral LLM~405B128K~230GBcloudLlama Community License
DeepSeek-R1 671B (MoE)Reasoning~671B128K~400GBcloudMIT
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