Slightly off topic, but question for folks. I'm hoping to replace coding with Claude Sonnet 4.5 with a model with an open source or open weights model. Are any of the models on Ollama.com cloud offering ( https://ollama.com/search?c=cloud ) or any of the models on OpenRouter.ai a close replacement? I know that no model right now matches the full performance and capabilities of Claude Sonnet 4.5, but I want to know ho…
April 2026 TLDR Setup for Ollama and Gemma 4 26B on a Mac mini
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Re: April 2026 TLDR Setup for Ollama and Gemma 4 26B on a Mac mini
#102Slightly off topic, but question for folks. I'm hoping to replace coding with Claude Sonnet 4.5 with a model with an open source or open weights model. Are any of the models on Ollama.com cloud offering ( https://ollama.com/search?c=cloud ) or any of the models on OpenRouter.ai a close replacement? I know that no model right now matches the full performance and capabilities of Claude Sonnet 4.5, but I want to know ho…
Nothing comes close, in my opinion. Sonnet and Opus are still the best models. The Codex variants of the GPT models are also great. I've tried MiniMax, GLM, Qwen and Kimi and for anything even remotely complex these models seriously struggle.
Re: April 2026 TLDR Setup for Ollama and Gemma 4 26B on a Mac mini
#103Slightly off topic, but question for folks. I'm hoping to replace coding with Claude Sonnet 4.5 with a model with an open source or open weights model. Are any of the models on Ollama.com cloud offering ( https://ollama.com/search?c=cloud ) or any of the models on OpenRouter.ai a close replacement? I know that no model right now matches the full performance and capabilities of Claude Sonnet 4.5, but I want to know ho…
In short: no. Nothing comes close, in my opinion. Sonnet and Opus are still the best models. The Codex variants of the GPT models are also great. I've tried MiniMax, GLM, Qwen and Kimi and for anything even remotely complex these models seriously struggle.
Yes, this is the conclusion I've come to as well. I don't want to continue supporting OpenAI nor Anthropic, but the other models don't seem to be anywhere close yet, despite the hype.
Re: April 2026 TLDR Setup for Ollama and Gemma 4 26B on a Mac mini
#104Slightly off topic, but question for folks. I'm hoping to replace coding with Claude Sonnet 4.5 with a model with an open source or open weights model. Are any of the models on Ollama.com cloud offering ( https://ollama.com/search?c=cloud ) or any of the models on OpenRouter.ai a close replacement? I know that no model right now matches the full performance and capabilities of Claude Sonnet 4.5, but I want to know ho…
Yes GLM5 and KimiK2.5 are pretty close replacements for sonnet.
Re: April 2026 TLDR Setup for Ollama and Gemma 4 26B on a Mac mini
#105Slightly off topic, but question for folks. I'm hoping to replace coding with Claude Sonnet 4.5 with a model with an open source or open weights model. Are any of the models on Ollama.com cloud offering ( https://ollama.com/search?c=cloud ) or any of the models on OpenRouter.ai a close replacement? I know that no model right now matches the full performance and capabilities of Claude Sonnet 4.5, but I want to know ho…
Yes GLM5 and KimiK2.5 are pretty close replacements for sonnet.
Re: April 2026 TLDR Setup for Ollama and Gemma 4 26B on a Mac mini
#106Huge Claude user here… can someone help me set some realistic expectations if I bought a Mac mini and spun one up? I use Claude primarily for dev work and Home Lab projects. Are the open models good enough to run locally and replace the Claude workload? Or am I better off with my $20/mo Claude subscription?
However you should manage your expectations. Whatever the benchmarks say, you'll quickly realise they're not at all competing with Sonnet let alone Opus. Even the largest open weights models aren't really doing that.
Re: April 2026 TLDR Setup for Ollama and Gemma 4 26B on a Mac mini
#107Re: April 2026 TLDR Setup for Ollama and Gemma 4 26B on a Mac mini
#108Sorry for being off topic, but why can’t I open this without being logged into GitHub? I thought gists are either completely private or publicly accessible. Are they no longer publicly accessible?