All rankings
Best LLM rankings.
72 curated lists by use case, hardware, and license.
By use case
7 picks
Best local LLM for agents
7 picks
Best local LLM for coding
8 picks
Best local LLM for French
7 picks
Best local LLM for RAG
6 picks
Best local LLM for reasoning
7 picks
Best local LLM with vision
NVIDIA GPU
7 picks
Best local LLM for rtx 2060
7 picks
Best local LLM for rtx 2070
7 picks
Best local LLM for rtx 2080
7 picks
Best local LLM for rtx 2080 ti
7 picks
Best local LLM for rtx 3050 8
8 picks
Best local LLM for rtx 3060
7 picks
Best local LLM for rtx 3060 ti
7 picks
Best local LLM for rtx 3070
7 picks
Best local LLM for rtx 3070 ti
7 picks
Best local LLM for the RTX 3080 (10 GB & 12 GB)
7 picks
Best local LLM for the RTX 3080 12 GB
7 picks
Best local LLM for rtx 3080 ti
8 picks
Best local LLM for rtx 3090
8 picks
Best local LLM for rtx 3090 ti
7 picks
Best local LLM for rtx 4060
7 picks
Best local LLM for rtx 4060 ti
7 picks
Best local LLM for rtx 4060 ti 16
7 picks
Best local LLM for rtx 4070
7 picks
Best local LLM for rtx 4070 super
7 picks
Best local LLM for rtx 4070 ti
7 picks
Best local LLM for rtx 4070 ti super
7 picks
Best local LLM for rtx 4080
7 picks
Best local LLM for rtx 4080 super
7 picks
Best local LLM for rtx 4090
7 picks
Best local LLM for rtx 5050
7 picks
Best local LLM for rtx 5060
7 picks
Best local LLM for rtx 5060 ti 16
7 picks
Best local LLM for rtx 5070
7 picks
Best local LLM for rtx 5070 ti
7 picks
Best local LLM for rtx 5080
8 picks
Best local LLM for rtx 5090
AMD Radeon
7 picks
Best local LLM for radeon rx 6700 xt
7 picks
Best local LLM for radeon rx 6800 xt
7 picks
Best local LLM for radeon rx 7700 xt
7 picks
Best local LLM for radeon rx 7800 xt
7 picks
Best local LLM for radeon rx 7900 gre
7 picks
Best local LLM for radeon rx 7900 xt
8 picks
Best local LLM for radeon rx 7900 xtx
7 picks
Best local LLM for radeon rx 9060 xt
7 picks
Best local LLM for radeon rx 9070
7 picks
Best local LLM for radeon rx 9070 xt
Apple Silicon
7 picks
Best local LLM for imac m4
8 picks
Best local LLM for mac 128gb
8 picks
Best local LLM for mac 16gb
8 picks
Best local LLM for mac 24gb
8 picks
Best local LLM for mac 32gb
8 picks
Best local LLM for mac 48gb
8 picks
Best local LLM for mac 64gb
7 picks
Best local LLM for mac 8gb
8 picks
Best local LLM for mac 96gb
7 picks
Best local LLM for mac mini m2
8 picks
Best local LLM for mac mini m4
8 picks
Best local LLM for Mac Silicon
8 picks
Best local LLM for mac studio
7 picks
Best local LLM for macbook air m1
7 picks
Best local LLM for macbook air m2
7 picks
Best local LLM for macbook air m3
7 picks
Best local LLM for macbook air m4
7 picks
Best local LLM for macbook pro m1
7 picks
Best local LLM for macbook pro m2
8 picks
Best local LLM for macbook pro m3
8 picks
Best local LLM for macbook pro m4
VRAM budget
Constraint
8 picks
Best commercial-friendly local LLM
7 picks
Best CPU-only LLM
8 picks
Best European sovereign LLM
More rankings
Best Local LLM for Agents & Tool Use — MCP-Ready 2026
Best Local LLM on AMD Radeon — ROCm 2026 Guide
Best Local LLM for Customer Service Chatbots — SOC 2 Path
Best Local LLM for Coding — Cursor / Copilot Alternatives 2026
Best Local LLM for Python Development — 2026 Tested
Best Local LLM for Rust — Tested on Borrow Checker Edge Cases
Best Local LLM for SQL Generation — Hands-On 2026
Best Local LLM for TypeScript & React Development
Best Local LLM on AMD EPYC — CPU-Only Server Inference
Two RTX 3090s for Local LLM — Real Throughput vs $5k Cost
Best Local Embeddings Models for RAG — Self-Hosted
Best Local LLM for Fiction Writing — Tested on 50 Pages
Best Local LLM on Intel Arc B580/B570 — Battlemage Tested
Best Local LLM on Mac Mini M4 Pro (24 GB Unified)
Best Local LLM on Mac Studio M4 Ultra (256 GB): 2026 Verdict
Best Local LLM on MacBook Air M4 (16 / 24 GB)
Best Local LLM on MacBook Pro M4 Max — Cursor / Copilot Replacement
Best Local LLM for RAG — LangChain & LlamaIndex Tested
Local LLM on Raspberry Pi 5 — Yes, It Works (Just Painful)
Best Local LLM as a Research Assistant — 2026 Picks
Best Local LLM for RTX 3090 in 2026 — Still Worth It?
Best Local LLM for Snapdragon X Copilot+ PCs
Best Local LLM for Structured Data Extraction (JSON Mode)
Best Local LLM for Document Summarization — Long Docs Tested
Best Local LLM for Translation — 50+ Languages Tested
Best Local Multimodal LLM — Llama 3.2 Vision, Qwen VL Tested
Best Local LLM for 12 GB VRAM (RTX 3060, 4070, 5070)
Best Local LLM for 24 GB VRAM — RTX 3090, 4090, 5090 Compared
Best Local LLM for Academic Writing & Research