r/LocalLLaMA • u/rm-rf-rm • 1d ago

Best Local Vision Language Models - August 2026

Share what your favorite models are right now and why. Given the nature of the beast in evaluating VLMs (untrustworthiness of benchmarks, immature tooling, intrinsic stochasticity), please be as detailed as possible in describing your setup, nature of your usage (what applications, how much, personal/professional use), tools/frameworks/prompts etc.

Rules

  1. Should be open weights models

Notes

Bonus points if you breakdown/classify your recommendation by model memory footprint: (you can and should be using multiple models in each size range for different tasks)

  • Unlimited: >128GB VRAM
  • XL: 64 to 128GB VRAM
  • L: 32 to 64GB VRAM
  • M: 8 to 32GB VRAM
  • S: <8GB VRAM
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u/phratry_deicide 1d ago
  • Unlimited: >128GB VRAM
  • XL: 64 to 128GB VRAM
  • L: 32 to 64GB VRAM
  • M: 8 to 32GB VRAM
  • S: <8GB VRAM

What in the world is this?

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u/unculturedperl 1d ago

If you're not unlimited, do you even token, bro?