Tier list

Local AI model tier list

Every model we track, ranked by quality alone. Tiers don’t depend on your hardware: they tell you how capable a model is. To see which ones your machine can run, use the Model Finder.

How the 621 LLMs stack up

Tap a tier to jump to it. Scores run from 0 to 100; A+ is 85 and up.

Who makes the best ones · models rated A or A+

  1. Alibaba32
  2. DeepSeek20
  3. Zhipu AI14
  4. Mistral AI13
  5. NVIDIA11
  6. Moonshot AI10

Step 1

Tell us your hardware first

Then you will see how many of these 621 LLMs run on it, and can filter the list by how well each one runs.

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A+

Excellent · scores 85–100

Frontier class: rivals the best hosted models at reasoning, code and long tasks.

109 models
A

Great · scores 70–84

Great everyday models: strong at coding, writing and tool use.

117 models
B

Good · scores 55–69

Good, dependable models for chat, drafting and summaries.

97 models
C

Fair · scores 40–54

Fair: fine for simple tasks, classification and quick answers.

132 models
D

Basic · scores under 40

Basic: tiny or older models for experiments and small devices.

166 models

Quality tiers are curated from published benchmarks and model reviews, then scaled by quantization for each result on the Model Finder, so a tier here is the model’s ceiling at full precision.

Estimates come from published hardware specs and our open formulas, not from running the model on your machine. Real speed varies with runtime, drivers and settings. Numbers marked “Measured” come from a linked benchmark.

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