What setup would you (or other people) recommend for a local model, and which model, if I want something like Claude Sonnet 4.5 (or actually, earlier versions, which seemed to be better)?

Anyone could chime in! I just want to have working local model that is at least as good as Sonnet 4.5, or 3.x.

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scosman 3 days ago | parent [-]

Nothing open is quite as good as Sonnet 4.5 and Codex 5. GLM 4.6, MiniMax M2, Deepseek v3.2, Kimi K2 and Qwen Coder 3 are close. But those are hundreds of billions of parameters, so running locally is very very expensive.

	▲	johnisgood 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		That is unfortunate. I will never be able to afford such hardware that could run them. :(