Use case

Best local LLM for reasoning and analysis

This page does not name a winner. The title is the job. You test the suggested models on your own prompts, then decide.

Routed with the catalog tag for reasoning.

Catalog label: reasoning. A catalog tag is a routing label, not a benchmark, and this site has no measured score for this job.

Test this use case

Example prompts

• A shop sold 40 units in week one and 30 in week two. Did the second week fall, and by how many units? Show the arithmetic.
• Two options: ship in 2 days for $20, or ship in 5 days for $8. The buyer needs it before day 4. Which option fits, and why?
• Read this claim and say what would have to be true for it to hold: every late delivery was caused by the weather.

The compare page can drop one of these in with one click. They are starters, not a test set we scored.

Open models that carry this tag

Alphabetical. Order here is not a ranking. The compare suggester reorders them from your languages, context, privacy, and budget, and it says why.

• DeepSeek R1 0528Catalog tags: code, reasoning. Routing labels, not benchmarks.
• DeepSeek V3Catalog tags: chat, code, reasoning. Routing labels, not benchmarks.
• GLM 4.7 FlashCatalog tags: chat, code, reasoning. Routing labels, not benchmarks.
• gpt-oss-120bCatalog tags: chat, code, reasoning. Routing labels, not benchmarks.
• gpt-oss-20bCatalog tags: chat, code, reasoning. Routing labels, not benchmarks.
• Kimi K2.6Catalog tags: chat, code, reasoning. Routing labels, not benchmarks.
• LFM2.5 2.6BCatalog tags: chat, reasoning, rag. Routing labels, not benchmarks.
• LFM2.5 24B A2BCatalog tags: chat, reasoning. Routing labels, not benchmarks.
• Llama 3.3 70B InstructCatalog tags: chat, rag, reasoning, code. Routing labels, not benchmarks.
• Mistral Small 4Catalog tags: chat, code, reasoning, translation. Routing labels, not benchmarks.
• Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3BCatalog tags: chat, reasoning. Routing labels, not benchmarks.
• Nemotron 3 Super 120BCatalog tags: chat, reasoning. Routing labels, not benchmarks.
• Phi-4Catalog tags: code, reasoning. Routing labels, not benchmarks.
• Qwen2.5 72B InstructCatalog tags: translation, rag, code, reasoning. Routing labels, not benchmarks.
• Qwen3 14BCatalog tags: code, translation, reasoning. Routing labels, not benchmarks.
• Qwen3 235B A22BCatalog tags: chat, reasoning, translation. Routing labels, not benchmarks.
• Qwen3 32BCatalog tags: code, reasoning, translation, rag. Routing labels, not benchmarks.
• Qwen3.5 9BCatalog tags: chat, code, reasoning. Routing labels, not benchmarks.
• Qwen3.6 35B A3BCatalog tags: chat, code, reasoning. Routing labels, not benchmarks.

The compare also keeps one frontier reference, Claude Sonnet 5.5. It is not open weights, and it is not a hardware recommendation.

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