Locally? You’d need a VERY powerful GPU to really be able to match the capabilities of Opus 4.6 online. I’ve played around with this stuff for the same reasons and while you can absolutely run a model with all of Claude’s capabilities offline, very few people will have the hardware to let it actually run at an acceptable speed and with a sufficient context window. That last part is the most important thing for coding because it’s what allows the model to operate across an entire project and not just a few functions at a time.
Locally? You’d need a VERY powerful GPU to really be able to match the capabilities of Opus 4.6 online. I’ve played around with this stuff for the same reasons and while you can absolutely run a model with all of Claude’s capabilities offline, very few people will have the hardware to let it actually run at an acceptable speed and with a sufficient context window. That last part is the most important thing for coding because it’s what allows the model to operate across an entire project and not just a few functions at a time.