Our local LLMs in action
These are the local open-source models we currently rely on – all running on our own infrastructure, in our office basement.
Reasoning & coding
The thinkers: complex analysis, business logic and help with programming.
deepseek-v4:flash
Flagship: analysis, booking logic, complex coding
DeepSeek AI (CN)
~102 GB RAM
MIT
kimi-linear:48b
Everyday sprinter, long documents & context understanding
Moonshot AI (CN)
30 GB RAM
MIT
qwen3-coder:30b
Coding specialist for fast iterations & agent tasks
Alibaba / Qwen (CN)
18 GB RAM
Apache 2.0
qwen3.6:35b
Mid-range reserve
Alibaba / Qwen (CN)
23 GB RAM
Apache 2.0
Vision & documents
The eyes: understanding images and turning scans into usable text.
qwen3-vl:32b
Detailed image understanding: screenshots, diagrams, receipts
Alibaba / Qwen (CN)
20 GB RAM
Apache 2.0
qwen3-vl:8b
Fast vision variant for simple image tasks
Alibaba / Qwen (CN)
6,1 GB RAM
Apache 2.0
gemma4:31b
Image input + polished writing
Google
19 GB RAM
Gemma license
deepseek-ocr
PDF/scan → Markdown
DeepSeek AI (CN)
6,7 GB RAM
MIT
Retrieval & search
The memory: finds the right content in large data sets.
qwen3-embedding:8b
Vectors for similarity search
Alibaba / Qwen (CN)
4,7 GB RAM
Apache 2.0
Our infrastructure
This is where our local models run.
Hardware
MacBook Pro 16" M5 Max, 128 GB RAM.
Access & security
Cloudflare Tunnel to the local MacBook.
Power
UPS Ubiquiti UniFi.
Usage
How intensively our models are currently in use.
73.4M
Tokens this month
Input
72.6M
Output
758'548
3'170
Requests this month
Archive
Models we've replaced – for the record.
Reasoning & coding
| Old model | Replaced by |
|---|---|
| qwen3.5:122b | deepseek-v4:flash |
| qwen3.6:35b-a3b | kimi-linear:48b |
| qwen3.6:27b | qwen3.6:35b |
| qwen3.5:9b | kimi-linear:48b |
| qwen3.5:4b | kimi-linear:48b |
Vision & documents
| Old model | Replaced by |
|---|---|
| gemma4:12b | qwen3-vl:8b |
| gemma4:e4b | qwen3-vl:8b |
Retrieval & search
| Old model | Replaced by |
|---|---|
| qwen3-embedding:4b | qwen3-embedding:8b |
| qwen3-reranker:8b | — |