deepseek v4 pro - but honestly it is comparable to gpt-5.4-mini, far from GPT5.4 let alone GPT5.5! Its advantage is really just its pricing. I'm going to give Kimi K2.7 a try - with K2.6, even its cloud chat locks up all the time, so it really didn't give me much confidence at all for agentic coding.
deepseek v4 pro - but honestly it is comparable to gpt-5.4-mini, far from GPT5.4 let alone GPT5.5! Its advantage is really just its pricing. I'm going to give Kimi K2.7 a try - with K2.6, even its cloud chat locks up all the time, so it really didn't give me much confidence at all for agentic coding.
kimi k2.7 code looks great on this ranking https://x.com/prz_chojecki/status/2065741640635990128?s=20
I use qwen3.6:36B locally
DeepSeek v4 let's me do more with my quota
cheap, fast, not as good, but more gets done without giving Big Ai any more money
qwen3.6 35b.
other peoples compute resources are unreliable ar best.