Claude Code makes local LLMs 90% slower (opens in new tab)

# How to Run Local LLMs with Claude Code This step-by-step guide shows you how to connect open LLMs and APIs to Claude Code entirely locally, complete with screenshots. Run using any open model like Qwen3.5, DeepSeek and Gemma. For this tutorial, we’ll use **Qwen3.5** and GLM-4.7-Flash. Both are the strongest 35B MoE agentic & coding model as of Mar 2026 (which works great on a 24GB RAM/unified mem device) to autonomously fine-tune an LLM with Unsloth. You can swap in any other model, just ...