LocalLLMLeaderboard

Local LLM Leaderboard – Best Open Models You Can Run at Home

Updated every week from Hugging Face trending — ranked by independent intelligence scores, filtered by your VRAM.

As of 2026-W40, the top local LLM is DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B GGUF (Intelligence 8.4); the most downloaded is Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct. Updated weekly from Hugging Face and Artificial Analysis.

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#	Model	Params	Intelligence	Coding	Min VRAM (Q4)	Downloads 30d
1	DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B GGUF	32.8B	8.4	—	21.7 GB	0.05M
2	Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct	8.8B	7.3	—	—	17.08M
3	Llama 3.1 8B	8.0B	6.9	5.4	—	0.58M
4	Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct	32.8B	6.7	—	21.7 GB	1.05M
5	Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct abliterated GGUF	32.8B	6.7	—	—	0.01M
6	Qwen2.5 Coder 7B Instruct GGUF	7.6B	5.8	—	5.3 GB	0.30M
7	Qwen2.5 Coder 7B Instruct abliterated GGUF	7.6B	5.8	—	—	0.04M
8	Llama 2 7b hf	6.7B	5.7	—	—	0.79M
9	Qwen3 8B	8.2B	—	—	6.0 GB	11.69M
10	Qwen2.5 7B Instruct	7.6B	—	—	5.3 GB	9.64M
11	Qwen3.8 27B	27.8B	—	—	—	7.02M
12	Mistral 7B Instruct v0.3	7.2B	—	—	5.4 GB	2.18M
13	Qwen3 14B	14.8B	—	—	10.0 GB	2.16M
14	Qwen3.8 27B TURBO Fable Cold Fusion 735 882 Heretic Uncensored NEO CODER MAX MTP GGUF	26.9B	—	—	—	1.73M
15	Qwen2.5 Coder 14B Instruct	14.8B	—	—	10.2 GB	1.69M
16	Meta Llama 3 8B Instruct	8.0B	—	—	—	1.05M
17	Apertus v1.5 8B	8.9B	—	—	—	0.49M
18	Meta Llama 3 8B	8.0B	—	—	—	0.23M
19	Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8 27B GSQ RCO GGUF	26.9B	—	—	—	0.12M
20	Qwen2.5 Coder 14B Instruct abliterated GGUF	14.8B	—	—	—	0.04M
21	Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct ultra uncensored heretic H3 GGUF	25.2B	—	—	—	0.04M
22	MiniMax H3 TextEncoder Qwen3VL 32B abliterated GGUF	26.5B	—	—	—	0.03M
23	K2 Horizon 7B	9.0B	—	—	6.5 GB	0.02M
24	Qwen3.8 Flash Next MLX Serve mixed 4 8bit	133.2B	—	—	—	0.01M
25	L3.2 Rogue Creative Instruct Uncensored Abliterated 7B GGUF	7.5B	—	—	6.1 GB	0.01M
26	OrcaSAQ 2 Cyber 27B Uncensored GGUF	27.3B	—	—	—	0.01M
27	DeepHat V1 7B	7.6B	—	—	5.3 GB	0.01M
28	CLM v0.1 8B	—	—	—	5.9 GB	0.00M
29	Xyntetik Kvist 14B	14.4B	—	—	—	0.00M
30	llm jp 4.1 32b a3b thinking gguf	32.1B	—	—	—	0.00M
31	llm jp 4.1 32b a3b thinking	32.1B	—	—	20.5 GB	0.00M
32	Wan2.2 Animate 2 14B	—	—	—	—	—
33	Qwen3 VL 32B Heretic MiniMax H3 NVFP4	—	—	—	—	—
34	Qwen3 VL 32B Ultra Heretic H3 ComfyUI INT8 ConvRot	—	—	—	—	—
35	Qwen3 VL 32B Heretic MiniMax H3 NVFP4	—	—	—	—	—

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