{"slug": "ask-hn-which-is-the-best-local-model-under-3b-parameters-today", "title": "Ask HN: Which is the best local model under 3B parameters today?", "summary": "A developer building a worklog automation tool for coding agents asks the HN community for the best local language model under 3 billion parameters to process screen captures and update project management tools.", "body_md": "| ||||||||||||\n1 point by |\nI am building a product for worklog updation automation for developers, so the model should be able to process the developer's coding agent session/screen capture ocr/screen accessibility tree text and then classify them and post update on what was the progress made on their connected project management tool. Which model would you suggest for this usecase? | |||||||||||\n|", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-which-is-the-best-local-model-under-3b-parameters-today", "canonical_source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48728991", "published_at": "2026-06-30 05:59:55+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-30 06:20:21.158441+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["large-language-models", "developer-tools", "ai-agents"], "entities": ["HN"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-which-is-the-best-local-model-under-3b-parameters-today", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-which-is-the-best-local-model-under-3b-parameters-today.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-which-is-the-best-local-model-under-3b-parameters-today.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-which-is-the-best-local-model-under-3b-parameters-today.jsonld"}}