Model directory
Each entry below is a family of AI models you can download for free and run on your own computer. The label on each card tells you who made it, how big it is, what licence it comes under, and what it is good at. New to all this? The glossary defines every term used here, or try the picker to find one that fits your machine.
Alibaba (Qwen team) · China
Current open-weight Qwen generation for local use. Qwen3.6-27B is the key workstation-class checkpoint. Qwen3.8-Max-Preview is newer but cloud/API-only as of August 15, 2026 and is intentionally excluded from the local picker.
Alibaba (Qwen team) · China
Released in 2026. The smaller checkpoints remain excellent local choices when Qwen 3.6 is too large.
OpenBMB · China
Edge-first model for phones and low-memory laptops.
Google DeepMind · United States
Multimodal family spanning edge through workstation hardware. The 26B-A4B model activates about 4B parameters per token while retaining a 26B memory footprint.
Microsoft Research · United States
Verified Microsoft Phi family. RunLocal does not list an unverified Phi-5 family.
Meta AI · United States
Meta's open-weight family. Custom licensing applies; Scout and Maverick are MoE models with much smaller active parameter counts than total weights.
Mistral AI · France (EU)
Combines instruct, reasoning and coding modes in one multimodal MoE model. Low active parameters help compute speed, but the full weights still determine memory use.
Mistral AI · France (EU)
Dense 128B multimodal model. Local deployment is memory-heavy and generally workstation-class.
EuroLLM Consortium · European Union
Transparent European family covering all 24 EU official languages plus additional languages.
Allen Institute for AI · United States (non-profit)
Weights, data, training code and intermediate checkpoints are public; transparency is the differentiator.
Frontier open weights
Kimi K3, GLM-5.2, Llama 4 Maverick, DeepSeek V4 Pro: what running them actually takes, and the runnable sibling from each family.
Trending · refreshed weekly
The live top 16 from Hugging Face, ranked by downloads, likes and recency. Auto-updated every Monday.
