AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Locally AI + Qwen
Run Qwen's latest models locally on your iPhone
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Qwen3.6-Plus▲139Multimodal AI optimized for real-world coding agents
Apr 2026 · qwen.ai · its alternatives →
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Qwen3.5 Small▲3550.8B-9B native multimodal w/ more intelligence, less compute
Mar 2026 · huggingface.co · its alternatives →
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Swiftlet is a Swift and Metal runtime that runs large Qwen Mixture-of-Experts models locally on Apple devices by streaming expert weights from storage, enabling 35B and 80B models to run with low RAM, including on iPhone. - leonickson1/Swiftlet
Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Qwen3.5▲288The 397B native multimodal agent with 17B active params
Feb 2026 · qwen.ai · its alternatives →
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Qwen's most advanced reasoning model yet
2025 · huggingface.co · its alternatives →
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Found that you can actually run a 35B Qwen model on a Pi with very impressive intelligence and stability. Built connectors for car ODB to read all about car internals, and manufacturer's cloud service for stuff like changing AC or opening/ locking doors. Gave it info such as the full car manual. And then hooked it up with my other agents in our discussion room! So now it can answer car questions such as "when should I add oil and what kind of oil?" and help you fully offline, and when online talk with the agent family that includes all the most powerful models so they know how the car…
Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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NativeMind▲468Your fully private, open-source, on-device AI assistant
2025 · nativemind.app · its alternatives →
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Qwen-Image-2512▲316This is an independent project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Qwen or Alibaba
Jan 2026 · qwen.ai · its alternatives →
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Qwen3-Coder▲248A powerful open model for agentic coding tasks
2025 · qwenlm.github.io · its alternatives →
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Qwen3.8-Max▲277Qwen3.8-Max + MCP for coding on your local machine, without paying for Qwen Code. Qwen3.8-Max itself runs in the cloud through Qwen Studio — this setup just gives it access to your local files and terminal through MCP. My take: it is slower than Codex and Claude Code, especially in thinking mode, but it does work well. MCP adds some latency too since there’s an extra layer between the model and your machine. In fast mode, it gets noticeably closer. I wouldn’t put it in the same category as Fable or Opus-5. Personally, I’d place it closer to the next Opus 4.7 level in terms of coding ability.…
Aug 2026 · qwen.ai · its alternatives →
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Qwen Chat▲157New LLM by Alibaba excelling in reasoning w/ "thinking mode"
2025 · chat.qwen.ai · its alternatives →
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Selora AI Local is an open-source, Qwen-based model for Home Assistant. Specs: Qwen3 1.7B base model (Q6 quantized~1.6GB) Four Home Assistant-specific LoRA adapters: - Answers - Clarifications - Automations - Commands ~3.5 GB total download size Runs locally via llama.cpp We chose a Qwen-based architecture because of a paper on Arxiv (link below) which applied a Qwen based model for local LLM configuration, and showed promising results. We took it a step further in application by training LoRA adapters specialized in Home Assistant configuration. This alpha release ships our base model with…
Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Cursor AI Mobile▲138Сontrol Cursor AI directly from your iPhone
Jan 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Lekh AI▲80Run powerful AI models on your Mac:fully offline and private
Jan 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
Sep 2026 · huggingface.co · its alternatives →
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Qwen3.6-27B▲120The sweet-spot open dense model for coding agents
Apr 2026 · qwen.ai · its alternatives →
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