As we know, currently Qwen-flash-next is the local king, but is it better than opus 4.6 max in coding?
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I have never used any Anthropic models, so if anyone has used both, please tell me which one is better at coding. Please don’t include benchmark comparisons. I don’t trust them. Thankyou
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- 2026-10-19 17:22 · r/LocalLLaMA
ijah --- M5+ Mac Engine for Qwen 3.8 Flash Next / Swift 1.5 Flash Next. Optimal Quality and Speed on 128gb - 2026-10-19 00:29 · r/LocalLLaMA
Qwen 3.8 Flash Next optimized for two CMP 170hx GPUs - 2026-10-17 21:30 · r/LocalLLM
Testing Qwen 3.8 Flash Next with Different Coding Tools - 2026-10-17 13:44 · r/LocalLLaMA
Why not run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next with the full n-gram-table? - 2026-10-17 12:02 · r/LocalLLM
Qwen Flash Next quant and temp comparison - performance vs task time vs quality - 2026-10-17 11:58 · r/LocalLLaMA
Qwen Flash Next quant and temp comparison - performance vs task time vs quality - 2026-10-17 10:31 · r/LocalLLaMA
Strata - Qwen 3.8 Flash Next - boosting decoding speed Tip - 2026-10-17 09:23 · r/LocalLLM
Unsloth Qwen 3.8 flash next is insane, can be compared with Opus 5.5 xhigh - 2026-10-17 08:59 · r/LocalLLaMA
Strata + Qwen 3.8 Flash Next: fast, but what's it costing in quality? - 2026-10-17 02:54 · r/LocalLLaMA
As we know, currently Qwen-flash-next is the local king, but is it better than opus 4.6 max in coding?