Models
76 open-weight models, sized
Updated 21 Aug 2026 5 new this week, 14 this month
Parameter counts, layer counts and attention shapes are read from each model's own config, because the KV-cache arithmetic depends on them exactly. Sizes below are at Q4_K_M and 8K context against a GeForce RTX 4090. Missing a model that shipped this week? Open an issue — the table is hand-maintained.
| Model | Released | Params | Quant | Weights | Max context | Licence | On this rig | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Granite 4.1 3B Dense, small, enterprise-flavoured: tool calling and instruction following, no thinking mode. |
29 Apr 2026 | 3.4B | Q4_K_M | 1.9 GB | 128K | Apache 2.0 | 319 tok/s | Check · Hardware |
| Ling 3.0 Tiny 7.9B-A1.3B New An 8B MoE with 1.3B active and a latent KV cache on only 6 of 24 layers — reasoning and tool use sized for Apple Silicon and edge boxes. |
10 Aug 2026 | 7.9B MoE | Q4_K_M | 4.4 GB | 128K | MIT | 321 tok/s | Check · Hardware |
| Fara 7B A web computer-use agent on a Qwen2.5-VL base — it clicks, fills forms and stops for permission. Not a chat model; size it like an 8B with vision. |
24 Nov 2025 | 8.29B | Q4_K_M | 4.7 GB | 125K | MIT | 131 tok/s | Check · Hardware |
| Granite 4.1 8B Matches the old Granite 4.0 32B MoE at a quarter of the size. Fast, Apache 2.0, no reasoning traces. |
29 Apr 2026 | 8.79B | Q4_K_M | 4.9 GB | 128K | Apache 2.0 | 123 tok/s | Check · Hardware |
| Ornith 1.5 9B New this week The small Ornith: a coding-agent reasoning build on the Qwen3.5 9B architecture. Same VRAM as its base, thinks before every answer. |
19 Aug 2026 | 9.41B | Q4_K_M | 5.3 GB | 256K | MIT | 115 tok/s | Check · Hardware |
| gpt-oss 20B Ships natively in MXFP4, so the 4-bit weights are the reference weights, not a lossy copy. Fits 16 GB. |
Aug 2025 | 20.9B MoE | MXFP4 | 10.8 GB | 128K | Apache 2.0 | 126 tok/s | Check · Hardware |
| Devstral Small 2 24B Built for software-engineering agents (OpenHands, Cline). Dense 24B, 384K window. Not in the Ollama library. |
Dec 2025 | 24B | Q4_K_M | 13.5 GB | 384K | Apache 2.0 | 45 tok/s | Check · Hardware |
| Qwen3.8 27B New this week The current default local Qwen: dense 27B, text + image + video, 262K context. Only 16 of its 64 blocks keep a KV cache, so long context is cheap. |
14 Aug 2026 | 27.8B | Q4_K_M | 15.6 GB | 256K | Apache 2.0 | 39 tok/s | Check · Hardware |
| Qwen3.6 27B The 24 GB coding pick of spring 2026 (77.2 SWE-bench Verified). Same shape as 3.8, one generation behind. |
22 Apr 2026 | 27.8B | Q4_K_M | 15.6 GB | 256K | Apache 2.0 | 39 tok/s | Check · Hardware |
| Granite 4.1 30B The largest Granite. Dense 29B at Q4 is a comfortable 24 GB fit. |
29 Apr 2026 | 28.9B | Q4_K_M | 16.3 GB | 128K | Apache 2.0 | 38 tok/s | Check · Hardware |
| Muse Glimmer 30B New Meta's first open weights since Llama 4: a dense 30B distilled from Muse Spark for always-on local agents. Two KV heads keep the cache small. |
10 Aug 2026 | 29.8B | Q4_K_M | 16.8 GB | 128K | Apache 2.0 | 36 tok/s | Check · Hardware |
| Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B Agentic coding MoE with a 256K native window. Still the most-downloaded local code model. |
Jul 2025 | 30.5B MoE | Q4_K_M | 17.1 GB | 256K | Apache 2.0 | 126 tok/s | Check · Hardware |
| GLM-4.7-Flash 30B-A3B MIT-licensed 30B-A3B tuned for agentic coding, with a DeepSeek-style latent KV cache. 60–80 tok/s reported on a 4090. |
20 Jan 2026 | 31.2B MoE | Q4_K_M | 17.5 GB | 198K | MIT | 139 tok/s | Check · Hardware |
| Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B New Mamba-2 + MoE hybrid built for the execution layer of agents: only 6 attention blocks, so the KV cache is almost free. Weights, data and recipe all open. |
11 Aug 2026 | 31.6B MoE | Q4_K_M | 17.8 GB | 256K | OpenMDW-1.1 | 130 tok/s | Check · Hardware |
| Qwen3.6 35B-A3B Mixture of experts with ~3B active: the fastest serious model a 24 GB card runs, and the best MoE under 40B on agentic coding. |
16 Apr 2026 | 35.9B MoE | Q4_K_M | 20.2 GB | 256K | Apache 2.0 | 126 tok/s | Check · Hardware |
| Ornith 1.5 35B-A3B New this week A reasoning-first MIT build on the Qwen3.6 35B-A3B architecture (thinks before every answer). Same VRAM as its base. |
19 Aug 2026 | 35.9B MoE | Q4_K_M | 20.2 GB | 256K | MIT | 126 tok/s | Check · Hardware |
| gpt-oss 120B Designed to land on one 80 GB card. Only ~5B parameters are active per token. |
Aug 2025 | 117B MoE | MXFP4 | 60.5 GB | 128K | Apache 2.0 | won't fit | Check · Hardware |
| Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12B The open-training-data 120B. Same hybrid layout as Lightning, so 128K context costs under a gigabyte. |
Mar 2026 | 124B MoE | Q4_K_M | 69.7 GB | 256K | NVIDIA Open Model | won't fit | Check · Hardware |
| Ling 3.0 Flash 124B-A5B New A 124B hybrid (5 linear-attention layers per MLA layer) with 5.1B active: SWE-bench Pro 56.6 and AIME 93 claimed. Built for 96–128 GB machines. |
2 Aug 2026 | 124B MoE | Q4_K_M | 69.7 GB | 256K | MIT | won't fit | Check · Hardware |
| Qwen3.5 122B-A10B The 96–128 GB unified-memory model: 122B of knowledge at 10B-active speed. |
24 Feb 2026 | 125B MoE | Q4_K_M | 70.3 GB | 256K | Apache 2.0 | won't fit | Check · Hardware |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 284B-A13B New The V4 that 128 GB machines can actually run at Q3. Cache is modelled as a 576-wide latent; V4 compresses it further at long context, so this is conservative. |
31 Jul 2026 | 284B MoE | Q4_K_M | 159.7 GB | 1024K | MIT | won't fit | Check · Hardware |
| Ornith 1.5 397B-A17B New this week The flagship Ornith on the Qwen3.5 397B-A17B architecture, MIT-licensed. A 256 GB Mac Studio at Q4, and it is in the Ollama library. |
19 Aug 2026 | 397B MoE | Q4_K_M | 223.2 GB | 256K | MIT | won't fit | Check · Hardware |
| Qwen3.5 397B-A17B Flagship-class at 17B active. A 256 GB Mac Studio or a multi-GPU box at Q4. |
16 Feb 2026 | 403B MoE | Q4_K_M | 226.6 GB | 256K | Apache 2.0 | won't fit | Check · Hardware |
| GLM-5.2 744B-A40B The strongest all-round open-weight model of mid-2026 on most public boards. Listed as a ceiling: 512 GB of unified memory at Q4. |
13 Jun 2026 | 753B MoE | Q4_K_M | 423.4 GB | 1024K | MIT | won't fit | Check · Hardware |
| Kimi K2.6 1T-A32B The open coding-agent benchmark leader of spring 2026 (80.2 SWE-bench). A 512 GB Mac Studio pair, or a ceiling. |
20 Apr 2026 | 1027B MoE | Q4_K_M | 577.5 GB | 256K | Modified MIT | won't fit | Check · Hardware |
| DeepSeek V4 Pro 1.6T-A49B New The 0813 refresh of the V4 flagship. Included as the honest ceiling; a terabyte of weights at Q4. |
13 Aug 2026 | 1650B MoE | Q4_K_M | 927.8 GB | 1024K | MIT | won't fit | Check · Hardware |
| Qwen3.8 2.4T-A95B New The first open Qwen-Max-class flagship. Listed as the honest ceiling: nothing short of a rack runs it. |
12 Aug 2026 | 2446B MoE | Q4_K_M | 1375.4 GB | 256K | Qwen3.8-Max License | won't fit | Check · Hardware |
| Kimi K3 2.8T-A104B New The largest open-weight model ever published. 69 of 93 blocks are linear attention, so its cache is tiny; its 2.8T weights are the problem. |
27 Jul 2026 | 2780B MoE | Q4_K_M | 1563.2 GB | 1024K | Modified MIT | won't fit | Check · Hardware |
Weight sizes are computed from the parameter count and the quantisation's effective bits per weight, not read off a file listing — expect them to land within a few percent of the GGUF you actually download. The method, in full.