Best Local VLMs - July 2026

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 (at least hardware and inference engine) nature of your usage (what applications, how much, personal/professional use) tools/frameworks/prompts etc.