Local AI workflow
Local coding assistant
A private Copilot alternative: an editor assistant pointed at a model your own machine serves. The stack: Continue, Aider, Cline with Ollama serving 3 recommended local models — hardware readiness graded by the same engine as the feasibility checker.
Tools in this category most commonly run against cloud APIs; a local model served by the runtime below is the private, offline option this page sizes.
The stack
Tool
Continue
Alternative tool
Aider
Alternative tool
Cline
Runtime
Ollama
Model pick
qwen3-14b
popular mid-size pick for code chat on 12–16GB cards
Model pick
qwen2.5-32b-instruct
a step up in capability when 24GB-class VRAM is available
Model pick
deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-14b
reasoning-tuned option for harder debugging prompts
Hardware readiness
Each cell is the engine's verdict for the best clean quant of that model on Ollama at 16K context — the same math as the checker, tiers not numbers.
Different hardware? Check your exact machine against any model in this stack.
Check your machine →Don't have the hardware? Build a stack for your budget →Template picks are editorial; every verdict, grade and tier above comes from the engine over sourced data — how the math works.