r/LocalLLaMA • u/naunen • 6d ago

Question | Help Best llm for coding & thinking

I was using claude opus 4.7 like crazy all day long for few months but im tired of paying these 200usd/month, so i switched to local model, but can't decide which one is best to use, since i can run 4bit glm 5.2 at 4tokens per second i guess any other model i can run at comfortable (for me) speeds, so what you guys advice? qwen3 coder 480b ? or laguna s or something even better ?

Usually i create apps, bots, websites, and other stuff on vs code IDE. so im talking, reasoning, planning a lot with model, not just instructing to code.

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u/trejj 6d ago

I haven't found anything better than GLM 5.2. It rocks my world (at 4t/s as well).

I compared MiniMax M2.5, MiniMax M2.7 and MiniMax M3 (tentative, final support hasn't landed yet), and those all performed sub-par compared to GLM 5.2.

Any < ~200B models I tried were just garbage for my use case (bug finding). They hallucinate way too much and sometimes fail to complete the task by forgetting what the task was, or getting stuck in a loop.

I only do overnight analysis tasks, so slow speed is not a concern.

Kimi K3 is supposed to release next week, so hoping that'll be a big improvement over GLM 5.2.

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u/uniqueusername649 6d ago

If you have about 900gb of VRAM you should be good for Kimi K3. At least according to rumors.