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Local inference
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Local inference
21 September 2026
· 3 min
Tool calling is the benchmark that matters
I benchmarked ten open models for agent work on my own GPU server and a laptop. Tokens per second got all the attention. The result that decided everything was whether the agent loop survived its second turn.
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