r/LocalLLaMA — October 2026 ranking
Qwen 3.8 Flash Next — October 2026 (10 posts · 27 comments · November 10, 2026) vs Qwen 3.5 — October 2026 (10 posts · 366 comments · November 10, 2026) vs Qwen 3.8 27B — October 2026 (10 posts · 17 comments · November 10, 2026) vs Qwen 3.6 — October 2026 (10 posts · 375 comments · November 10, 2026) vs DeepSeek V4.1 — October 2026 (10 posts · 400 comments · November 10, 2026) vs Gemma 4 — October 2026 (10 posts · 400 comments · November 10, 2026).
This comparison scores 6 models across 10 categories, collected November 10, 2026 on r/localllama-2026-10.
Overall
+23.839999999999996 Qwen 3.8 Flash Next — October 2026Category comparison
Intelligence
Qwen 3.8 Flash Next — October 202678Δ -4Qwen 3.5 — October 202668Δ -14Qwen 3.8 27B — October 202670Δ -12Qwen 3.6 — October 202662Δ -20DeepSeek V4.1 — October 202682Gemma 4 — October 202655Δ -27Coding quality
Qwen 3.8 Flash Next — October 202674Qwen 3.5 — October 202674Qwen 3.8 27B — October 2026no dataQwen 3.6 — October 202650Δ -24DeepSeek V4.1 — October 202655Δ -19Gemma 4 — October 202638Δ -36Instruction following
Qwen 3.8 Flash Next — October 2026no dataQwen 3.5 — October 2026no dataQwen 3.8 27B — October 2026no dataQwen 3.6 — October 202658DeepSeek V4.1 — October 202640Δ -18Gemma 4 — October 202648Δ -10Long context
Qwen 3.8 Flash Next — October 202672Qwen 3.5 — October 202658Δ -14Qwen 3.8 27B — October 2026no dataQwen 3.6 — October 202666Δ -6DeepSeek V4.1 — October 202630Δ -42Gemma 4 — October 2026no dataPrice / value
Qwen 3.8 Flash Next — October 202668Δ -2Qwen 3.5 — October 202670Qwen 3.8 27B — October 2026no dataQwen 3.6 — October 202670DeepSeek V4.1 — October 202650Δ -20Gemma 4 — October 2026no dataSpeed
Qwen 3.8 Flash Next — October 202674Δ -4Qwen 3.5 — October 202668Δ -10Qwen 3.8 27B — October 202660Δ -18Qwen 3.6 — October 202678DeepSeek V4.1 — October 202665Δ -13Gemma 4 — October 202660Δ -18Reliability & uptime
Qwen 3.8 Flash Next — October 202655Qwen 3.5 — October 2026no dataQwen 3.8 27B — October 2026no dataQwen 3.6 — October 202655DeepSeek V4.1 — October 202635Δ -20Gemma 4 — October 2026no dataCreativity & writing
Qwen 3.8 Flash Next — October 2026no dataQwen 3.5 — October 2026no dataQwen 3.8 27B — October 2026no dataQwen 3.6 — October 202640Δ -15DeepSeek V4.1 — October 2026no dataGemma 4 — October 202655Multimodal & vision
Qwen 3.8 Flash Next — October 2026no dataQwen 3.5 — October 2026no dataQwen 3.8 27B — October 202655Qwen 3.6 — October 2026no dataDeepSeek V4.1 — October 202650Δ -5Gemma 4 — October 2026no dataAgentic & tool use
Qwen 3.8 Flash Next — October 202676Qwen 3.5 — October 202666Δ -10Qwen 3.8 27B — October 2026no dataQwen 3.6 — October 202672Δ -4DeepSeek V4.1 — October 202640Δ -36Gemma 4 — October 202632Δ -44
Radar profile
Radar shows all 10 categories. Models with missing data have incomplete shapes — missing: Qwen 3.8 Flash Next — October 2026 (no data: Instructions, Creativity, Vision); Qwen 3.5 — October 2026 (no data: Instructions, Reliability, Creativity, Vision); Qwen 3.8 27B — October 2026 (no data: Coding, Instructions, Long ctx, Value, Reliability, Creativity, Agentic); Qwen 3.6 — October 2026 (no data: Vision); DeepSeek V4.1 — October 2026 (no data: Creativity); Gemma 4 — October 2026 (no data: Long ctx, Value, Reliability, Vision).