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Anyone routing between a local 8B model and Claude based on task complexity?

I've been looking into using a local 8B model alongside Claude for a few different workflows mainly because sending every request to a hosted API feels unnecessary when a smaller model can handle plenty of the work. For basic stuff like classification, extracting fields into JSON, summarizing short…

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  1. 2026-10-29 15:28 · r/LocalLLM
    Anyone routing between a local 8B model and Claude based on task complexity?

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