Best Local Vision Language Models - August 2026

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Share what your favorite models are right now and why . Given the nature of the beast in evaluating VLMs (untrustworthiness of benchmarks, immature tooling, intrinsic stochasticity), please be as detailed as possible in describing your setup, nature of your usage ( what applications , how much, personal/professional use), tools/frameworks/prompts etc. Rules Should be open weights models Notes Bonus points if you breakdown/classify your recommendation by model memory footprint: (you can and shoul