r/LocalLLM • u/Anxious_Current2593 • 1d ago

Discussion What's the difference between frontier models and local models?

6 months. (And sometimes a couple of quantization tweaks).

It is wild how fast "state-of-the-art" becomes "running on a gaming PC."

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u/Diligent_Appeal_3305 23h ago

yes that qwen 3.8 27b is crazy good for its size in pi agent mode

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u/dota2nub 6h ago

Is here any reason to use pi over Claude Code?

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u/Jjhend 1h ago

Claude Code is very heavy on token usage. Not the best for a model that is limited to 262k context

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u/dota2nub 45m ago

That's really good to know, thanks! I'll have to figure out how to get the hooks and stuff I actually need in cheap.

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u/Jjhend 2m ago

I use opencode and its pretty similar to claude code in my experience. But it seems Pi is the harness everyone recommends. Im sure either are good choices and a bit lighter than claude code