7 Best Local LLMs You Can Run for Coding
Security Boulevard, Monday, June 8th, 2026
Seven local coding LLMs ranked by SWE-bench performance and the hardware needed to run them privately.
Security Boulevard ranks seven local coding LLMs you can run today, from a multi-GPU flagship down to a model that fits on a single 24GB GPU or 32GB Mac. Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct is the top performer at 69.6% on SWE-bench Verified under an Apache 2.0 license, while Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B is the practical pick for most developers at 50.3% on a single 24GB GPU.
Other options discussed include Devstral, DeepSeek, and GLM. Models are compared on SWE-bench score, VRAM requirements, and runtime considerations. The piece cautions that running a model locally keeps code private but does not by itself make the agent secure.