(image from a netizen on b2 lmfao)
I personally use Kimi K2.5 the most as it’s quite well-rounded and they have a good mobile app.
My use case is extremely boring: troubleshooting game mods, searching, summarising, brainstorming, etc. I have experimented with openclaw using K2.5 which is pretty dope but it’s very unreliable, but it did save me a few hours of work by organizing my files.
At some point when I upgrade my computer I’m going to try to switch to local models exclusively.
Qwen code is not better than deepseek, gemini, claude, openAI by any output quality metric I’m aware of, but
brew install qwen-codeis free with daily limits (requires account), can be plugged into Roo Code (using the free daily requests in Roo Code). If you’re trying to min-max what you can get out of free tiers, Qwen code has been an asset in letting me prioritize harder tasks to the better models.try crush (FOSS) with a deepseek API key, 5$ gets you something like a whole month of agentic including coding. It’s really really cheap.