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Best Local Vision Language Models - August 2026
Share what your favorite models are right now and why. Given the nature of the beast in evaluating VLMs (untrustworthiness of benchmarks, immature tooling, intrinsic stochasticity), please be as detai
Share what your favorite models are right now and why. Given the nature of the beast in evaluating VLMs (untrustworthiness of benchmarks, immature tooling, intrinsic stochasticity), please be as detailed as possible in describing your setup, nature of your usage (what applications, how much, personal/professional use), tools/frameworks/prompts etc. Rules Should be open weights models Notes Bonus points if you breakdown/classify your recommendation by model memory footprint: (you can and should be using multiple models in each size range for different tasks) Unlimited: >128GB VRAM XL: 64 to 128GB VRAM L: 32 to 64GB VRAM M: 8 to 32GB VRAM S: <8GB VRAM submitted by /u/rm-rf-rm [link] [comments]
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Source: r/LocalLLaMA | 2026-08-24