Are you talking about hosted vs the ones you can easily run locally? Because there are open models that require hundreds of gb of vram which are apparently pretty close.
on the Will It Mythos benchmark, small models are punching way above their weight(s)
gemma4-26B (#7)
qwen-3.6-27B (#9)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48640196
on the Will It Mythos benchmark, small models are punching way above their weight(s)
gemma4-26B (#7)
qwen-3.6-27B (#9)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48640196