Latent Space: Top Local Models April 2026 — Qwen 3.5 Leads Overall, Qwen3-Coder-Next Dominates Coding

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Latent Space's April 2026 community-recommendation rankings put Qwen 3.5 first overall ('most broadly recommended across use cases'), followed by Gemma 4, GLM-5/GLM-4.7, MiniMax M2.7/M2.5, DeepSeek V3.2, and GPT-oss 20B. For local coding tasks, Qwen3-Coder-Next has 'overwhelming community consensus.' Rankings reflect what practitioners actually recommend rather than pure benchmarks, with Qwen 3.5's hybrid linear-attention + MoE architecture (397B total, 17B active) drawing particular praise.