Models

Pinned Inexpensive LLM API providers for open source models
by Nick Antonaccio

Pinned Kimi K3
by Nick Antonaccio

Pinned Hy3 works locally on a single DGX Spark. It's a serious contender for best self-hosted model.
by Nick Antonaccio

Pinned Deepseek V4 Flash is currently my favorite local model, without reservation (and great on the API too)
by Nick Antonaccio

Pinned Qwen 3.6 35a3b & 27b are incredible for small GPUs, Gemma 4 26a4b & 31b are runners-up
by Nick Antonaccio

Ternary models
by Nick Antonaccio

Qwen 3.6 Plus vs Recent Leaders
by Nick Antonaccio

Laguna S 2.1 is the newest great mid-size self-hostable model.
by Nick Antonaccio

Step-3.7-Flash is surprisingly good
by Nick Antonaccio

Minimax M3 - my first test results with it are *Fantastic*
by Nick Antonaccio

Tencent/hy3-preview is the current medium sized model to watch
by Nick Antonaccio

Don't forget about GLM 5.2
by Nick Antonaccio

Why use self-hosted models?
by Nick Antonaccio

Don't forget about Deepseek
by Nick Antonaccio

Use MTP!
by Nick Antonaccio

google/gemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview
by Nick Antonaccio

arcee-ai/trinity-large-thinking
by Nick Antonaccio

Testing LLMs' depth of knowledge, all the way up to Anthropic Fable
by Nick Antonaccio