Model Releases
Mac Studio M5 Max Cost Analysis
At $10k, you could get - 6.2B tokens with Qwen 3.8 Max (Qwen Pro plan) - 5.7B tokens with DeepSeek V4 Pro OpenRouter - 100B tokens with DeepSeek V4 Flash OpenRouter As a firm believer of local inferen
At $10k, you could get - 6.2B tokens with Qwen 3.8 Max (Qwen Pro plan) - 5.7B tokens with DeepSeek V4 Pro OpenRouter - 100B tokens with DeepSeek V4 Flash OpenRouter As a firm believer of local inference, unless you need it for data sovereignty, it's much more cost effect to wait for smaller models to keep getting better. In the meantime, find a reasonably priced 24GB - 32GB card for Qwen 3.8 27B, and offload hard tasks to OpenRouter. Qwhen 3.8 35B A3B? submitted by /u/AndreVallestero [link] [comments]
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- Local agentic coding Benchmark : Qwen 3.8 27B (in many weights quants / cache quants / engine / reasoning effort) vs others.
- Updated benchmark: Deepseek V4 Flash on SlopCodeBench (local)
- Qwen 3.8 27b vs Deepseek Flash
Source: r/LocalLLaMA | 2026-08-25