The community's decision engine

The most effective AI helper for your dollar — crowdsourced by the community.

Every Founder runs a benchmark. The leaderboard ranks the winning AI for every tier of consumer hardware — before you spend a dollar on VPS, API fees, or hardware you don't need.

62 tok/sdeepseek-coder:6.7b on MSIReal Founder benchmark · "small" hardware class
66 tok/sqwen3-coder:30b on Big EvoUnified-memory hardware · "huge" class
13Open-weight models in the catalogRefreshed weekly · auto-pulled by every install
Why this exists

Most AI users stack 6–12 subscriptions doing what their own laptop could handle for free.

Local Model Dojo benchmarks your hardware, picks the best local bots for each kind of job, and hands you a ready-made plan to run your entire business on the machine you already own.

Local. Owned. Measurable. Subscription-free at the brain layer.

What you get

Cuts through the local-AI noise in 15 minutes.

Every review blog and Reddit thread says a different "best model." We give you empirical numbers for your hardware and let you pick with data.

Hardware-aware model picker

Scans CPU, GPU, VRAM, and installed backends. Greys out models that won't fit. No guesswork.

Eight one-click efficiency tweaks

Power plan, sleep disable, Defender exclusions, CPU locks. Every change has a revert button.

Real benchmark, not vibes

Five prompts per model — speed, JSON, code, reasoning, long-form. Scored locally, results saved to SQLite.

Public leaderboard, opt-in

Submit your tuned scores under a display name. See the top entries by hardware class.

Privacy by default

Nothing leaves your PC except license check and updates. Hardware and crash data are anonymized and opt-in.

Catalog stays current

New open-weight LLMs land in the app every week. No reinstalls, no manual updates.

How it works

Install → benchmark → deploy.

1 — Buy a license

Pick a tier on the pricing page, pay through Stripe. License key arrives in your inbox in under a minute.

2 — Download + install

Signed Windows installer. First launch walks you through EULA, license entry, and a hardware scan.

3 — Benchmark + deploy

Pick models, click Download. Run the benchmark. Compare against the leaderboard. Deploy the winner for your use case.

Ready to stop guessing?

$9.99 / month for one PC · 14-day refund window · cancel any time

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