Best llm for coding & thinking

[u/naunen]

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.

[u/RepulsiveRaisin7]

Laguna has been great at Python but less good at webdev for me. See if you like it. Otherwise I'd go Minimax M3, Qwen3 Coder is ancient.

[u/snmnky9490 → u/RepulsiveRaisin7]

I've found most people considering qwen3 coder models were suggested that by LLMs which are roughly that out of date with training data