A Redditor's ranked list of small models for running coding agents without a big GPU
transanethole · reddit · 2026-11-02
A Reddit user compiled a ranked list of small LLMs that run on a normal computer for web research and coding agent use: Qwen 3.8 27B, Qwen 3.6 35B A3B, Jais 3 7B, Gemma 12B (vision), XHToken/SparkX2.6 4B, FrogNano 4B, Gemma E4B, Ling 3.0 Flash, and asks the community for additions or cuts under 10B.
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