Best Local LLMs - Apr 2026

We're back with another Best Local LLMs Megathread! We have continued feasting in the months since the previous thread with the much anticipated release of the Qwen3.5 and Gemma4 series. If that wasn't enough, we are having some scarcely believable moments with GLM-5.1 boasting SOTA level performance, Minimax-M2.7 being the accessible Sonnet at home, PrismML Bonsai 1-bit models that actually work etc. Tell us what your favorites are right now! The standard spiel: Share what you are running ri