Claude Code: connect to a local model when your quota runs out
https://boxc.net/blog/2026/claude-code-connecting-to-local-models-when-your-quota-runs-out/> Reduce your expectations about speed and performance!
Wildly understating this part.
Even the best local models (ones you run on beefy 128GB+ RAM machines) get nowhere close to the sheer intelligence of Claude/Gemini/Codex. At worst these local models will move you backwards and just increase the amount of work Claude has to do when your limits reset.
The best open models such as Kimi 2.5 are about as smart today as the big proprietary models were one year ago. That's not "nothing" and is plenty good enough for everyday work.
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