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Local Qwen 3.8 27B vs DeepSeek Flash API: Is local good enough?

Running a model on your own machine used to be a privacy story with a quality tax. On this generation that trade has narrowed to where we can state it plainly: for daily work, the local model is good enough. We measured it — 25 paired tasks across four workloads, same prompts, one strong independen…

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  1. 2026-10-07 12:54 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Local Qwen 3.8 27B vs DeepSeek Flash API: Is local good enough?

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