The Best Open LLM You Can Actually Run Right Now, by VRAM Tier (August 2026)
As of August 2026, the best open LLM to run locally depends on VRAM, with gpt-oss-20b recommended for 8-12GB, Gemma 4 31B or Qwen3.6-35B-A3B for 24GB, and gpt-oss-120b or DeepSeek V4 Flash for 128GB unified memory, accor…