Best frontier model/plan to pair with local LLM?

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Currently I have a Claude pro plan and qwen 3.8 27B locally. I use Opus whenever I hit a bug qwen can’t fix, or to do create a plan and/or do an adversarial review for a more complex/vital part of software architecture. I’ve been debating if there is a more optimal pairing given my use case? Part of me likes the idea of a Qwen/kimi sub so I can still be open weight, but I do hear Claude and OpenAi are quite good deal. I have also debated between grok and Gemini… Gemini 4 is actually pretty good. I have a Pro google account as well. What mix and match covers me best?   submitted by   /u/FactoryReboot [link]   [comments]