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What's the best open weight model for Blender? That's comparable to Astra

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Tired of getting hit by the weekly rate limits from Astra for my work in blender (and I'm on the 20x plan). Has anyone used DSeek/GLM/Kimi/Qwen for Blender? How did it compare to Astra/Fable? Would really appreciate some advice, and if anyone has any side-by-side comparisons that'd be super benefic…

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  1. 2026-09-16 06:38 · r/LocalLLaMA
    What's the best open weight model for Blender? That's comparable to Astra

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