> 50+ tps with qwen3.5 35b a4b on a 4090
But qwen3.5 35b is worse than even Claude Haiku 4.5. You could switch your Claude Code to use Haiku and never hit rate limits. Also gets similar 50tps.
My goto proprietary model in copilot for general tasks is gemini 3 flash which is priced the same as haiku.
The qwen model is in my experience close to gemini 3 flash, but gemini flash is still better.
Maybe it's somewhat related to what we're using them for. In my case I'm mostly using llms to code Lua. One case is a typed luajit language and the other is a 3d luajit framework written entirely in luajit.
I forgot exactly how many tps i get with qwen, but with glm 4.7 flash which is really good (to be local) gets me 120tps and a 120k context.
Don't get me wrong, proprietary models are superior, but local models are getting really good AND useful for a lot of real work.
Claude code always give me rate limits. Claude through copilot is a bit slow, but copilot has constant network request issues or something, but at least I don't get rate limited as often.
At least local models always work, is faster (50+ tps with qwen3.5 35b a4b on a 4090) and most importantly never hit a rate limit.