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•April 3, 2026•10 min read

Benchmarking 5 Local LLMs for Content Generation. Only One Survived.

Local LLMs are practical for content generation, legal document processing, and internal knowledge bases. I benchmarked five Qwen models on my MacBook Pro. Qwen 3 14B scored 91/100 avg vs 62 for Qwen 2.5 14B -- same size, dramatically better. Newer models performed worse.

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