Linux desktop, 16 GB

Models that fit

• Qwen3 8B

  a quick chatbot when about 6 GB is free

  WritingChatArchiveCodeTranslate

  Runs in:

  • AnythingLLM
  • LM Studio
  • Ollama

  +1

  Fits on:

  • 💻Windows laptop, 16 GB
  • 🖥️Gaming PC, 8 GB GPU
  • 🍎MacBook Air, 16 GB

  +18

  S· needs ~6.2 GB · Free to download · License: Apache 2.0File size: Source: Model source, 14 Oct 2026 · License: Source: License on the model card, 14 Oct 2026

• Gemma 3 4B

  writes text, and it can look at a photo

  WritingChatImagesTranslate

  Runs in:

  • LM Studio
  • Ollama

  Fits on:

  • 💻Windows laptop, 16 GB
  • 🖥️Gaming PC, 8 GB GPU
  • 🍎MacBook Air, 8 GB

  +19

  S· needs ~4.4 GB · Free to download · License: Gemma Terms of UseFile size: Source: Model source, 14 Oct 2026 · License: Source: License on the model card, 14 Oct 2026

• Qwen2.5-Coder 7B

  helps with short bits of code

  Code

  Runs in:

  • LM Studio
  • Ollama

  Fits on:

  • 💻Windows laptop, 16 GB
  • 🖥️Gaming PC, 8 GB GPU
  • 🍎MacBook Air, 16 GB

  +18

  S· needs ~5.7 GB · Free to download · License: Apache 2.0File size: Source: Model source, 14 Oct 2026 · License: Source: License on the model card, 14 Oct 2026

• Aya Expanse 8B

  writes and translates across languages

  WritingChatTranslate

  Runs in:

  • LM Studio
  • Ollama

  Fits on:

  • 💻Windows laptop, 16 GB
  • 🖥️Gaming PC, 8 GB GPU
  • 🍎MacBook Air, 16 GB

  +18

  S· needs ~6 GB · Free to download · License: CC-BY-NC 4.0File size: Source: Model source, 14 Oct 2026 · License: Source: License on the model card, 14 Oct 2026

• NLLB-200 1.3B

  translates many languages

  Translate

  Runs in:

  • CTranslate2
  • Transformers

  Fits on:

  • 💻Windows laptop, 8 GB
  • 🖥️Old office PC, 8 GB
  • 🍎MacBook Air, 8 GB

  +24

  XS· needs ~3 GB · Free to download · License: CC-BY-NC 4.0File size: Source: Model source, 14 Oct 2026 · License: Source: License on the model card, 14 Oct 2026

• Llama 3.2 3B

  short rewrites on a tiny computer

  WritingChat

  Runs in:

  • Jan
  • LM Studio
  • Ollama

  Fits on:

  • 💻Windows laptop, 8 GB
  • 🖥️Old office PC, 8 GB
  • 🍎MacBook Air, 8 GB

  +24

  XS· needs ~3 GB · Free to download · License: Llama 3.2 Community LicenseFile size: Source: Model source, 14 Oct 2026 · License: Source: License on the model card, 14 Oct 2026

• Whisper large-v3

  Transcription: 93% of Rev.ai

  i

  turns speech into text, in the larger file

  Transcript

  Runs in:

  • MacWhisper
  • whisper.cpp

  Fits on:

  • 💻Windows laptop, 8 GB
  • 🖥️Old office PC, 8 GB
  • 🍎MacBook Air, 8 GB

  +23

  XS· needs ~3.4 GB · Free to download · License: MITFile size: Source: Model source, 14 Oct 2026 · License: Source: License on the model card, 14 Oct 2026

• Whisper large-v3 turbo

  Transcription: 98% of Rev.ai

  i

  turns recordings into text, with less waiting

  Transcript

  Runs in:

  • MacWhisper
  • whisper.cpp

  Fits on:

  • 💻Windows laptop, 8 GB
  • 🖥️Old office PC, 8 GB
  • 🍎MacBook Air, 8 GB

  +24

  XS· needs ~1.9 GB · Free to download · License: MITFile size: Source: Model source, 14 Oct 2026 · License: Source: License on the model card, 14 Oct 2026

• Chatterbox

  reads text aloud with more expression

  Voice

  Runs in:

  • Chatterbox

  Fits on:

  • 💻Windows laptop, 8 GB
  • 🖥️Old office PC, 8 GB
  • 🍎MacBook Air, 8 GB

  +24

  XS· needs ~2.3 GB · Free to download · License: MITFile size: Source: Model source, 14 Oct 2026 · License: Source: License on the model card, 14 Oct 2026

• olmOCR 2 7B

  reads text from scans (OCR), including tables

  Scan

  Runs in:

  • LM Studio
  • olmOCR

  Fits on:

  • 💻Windows laptop, 16 GB
  • 🖥️Gaming PC, 8 GB GPU
  • 🍎MacBook Air, 16 GB

  +18

  S· needs ~6.5 GB · Free to download · License: Apache 2.0File size: Source: Model source, 14 Oct 2026 · License: Source: License on the model card, 14 Oct 2026

• Kokoro 82M

  reads text aloud in a warm voice

  Voice

  Runs in:

  • ComfyUI
  • Kokoro

  Fits on:

  • 💻Windows laptop, 4 GB
  • 🖥️Old office PC, 4 GB
  • 🍎MacBook Air, 8 GB

  +26

  XS· needs ~0.6 GB · Free to download · License: Apache 2.0File size: Source: Model source, 14 Oct 2026 · License: Source: License on the model card, 14 Oct 2026

• Distil-Whisper large-v3

  turns speech into text, in a smaller file

  Transcript

  Runs in:

  • MacWhisper
  • whisper.cpp

  Fits on:

  • 💻Windows laptop, 8 GB
  • 🖥️Old office PC, 8 GB
  • 🍎MacBook Air, 8 GB

  +24

  XS· needs ~1.8 GB · Free to download · License: MITFile size: Source: Model source, 14 Oct 2026 · License: Source: License on the model card, 14 Oct 2026

• MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B

  looks at pictures, documents, and video in a small file

  ScanImages

  Runs in:

  • llama.cpp
  • MiniCPM-V Apps
  • Ollama

  +2

  Fits on:

  • 💻Windows laptop, 8 GB
  • 🖥️Old office PC, 8 GB
  • 🍎MacBook Air, 8 GB

  +24

  XS· needs ~1.8 GB · Free to download · License: Apache 2.0File size: Source: Hugging Face GGUF, 19 Oct 2026 · License: Source: License on the model card, 19 Oct 2026

• Whisper small

  Transcription: 97% of Rev.ai

  i

  turns speech into text, almost anywhere

  Transcript

  Runs in:

  • MacWhisper
  • whisper.cpp

  Fits on:

  • 💻Windows laptop, 4 GB
  • 🖥️Old office PC, 4 GB
  • 🍎MacBook Air, 8 GB

  +26

  XS· needs ~0.8 GB · Free to download · License: MITFile size: Source: Model source, 14 Oct 2026 · License: Source: License on the model card, 14 Oct 2026

• Stable Diffusion XL

  makes pictures when about 8 GB is free

  Images

  Runs in:

  • ComfyUI
  • Draw Things

  Fits on:

  • 💻Windows laptop, 16 GB
  • 🖥️Gaming PC, 12 GB GPU
  • 🍎MacBook Air, 16 GB

  +17

  S· needs ~8 GB · Free to download · License: OpenRAIL++File size: Source: Model source, 14 Oct 2026 · License: Source: License on the model card, 14 Oct 2026

• PaddleOCR

  digits, 2022, PaddleOCR v2.5: 107% of ABBYY

  i

  reads text from scans (OCR), including tilted photos

  Scan

  Runs in:

  • PaddleOCR

  Fits on:

  • 💻Windows laptop, 4 GB
  • 🖥️Old office PC, 4 GB
  • 🍎MacBook Air, 8 GB

  +26

  XS· needs ~0.5 GB · Free to download · License: Apache 2.0File size: Source: Model source, 14 Oct 2026 · License: Source: License on the model card, 14 Oct 2026

• Hermes 3 8B

  Fine-tune of Llama 3.1 8B

  A Nous Research fine-tune of Llama 3.1 8B

  WritingChat

  Runs in:

  • LM Studio
  • Ollama

  Fits on:

  • 💻Windows laptop, 16 GB
  • 🖥️Gaming PC, 8 GB GPU
  • 🍎MacBook Air, 16 GB

  +18

  S· needs ~5.7 GB · Free to download · License: Llama 3.1 Community LicenseFile size: Source: Model source, 16 Oct 2026 · License: Source: License on the model card, 16 Oct 2026

• Piper (English)

  reads text aloud in a plain voice

  Voice

  Runs in:

  • Piper

  Fits on:

  • 💻Windows laptop, 4 GB
  • 🖥️Old office PC, 4 GB
  • 🍎MacBook Air, 8 GB

  +26

  XS· needs ~0.4 GB · Free to download · License: GPL-3.0File size: Source: piper1-gpl, 19 Oct 2026 · License: Source: GPL-3.0, 19 Oct 2026

• Tesseract

  digits, 2022, PaddleOCR v2.5: 84% of ABBYY

  i

  reads text from scans (OCR)

  Scan

  Runs in:

  • Tesseract

  Fits on:

  • 💻Windows laptop, 4 GB
  • 🖥️Old office PC, 4 GB
  • 🍎MacBook Air, 8 GB

  +26

  XS· needs ~0.3 GB · Free to download · License: Apache 2.0File size: Source: Model source, 14 Oct 2026 · License: Source: License on the model card, 14 Oct 2026

• Real-ESRGAN

  enlarges a picture you already have

  Images

  Runs in:

  • ComfyUI

  Fits on:

  • 💻Windows laptop, 8 GB
  • 🖥️Old office PC, 8 GB
  • 🍎MacBook Air, 8 GB

  +24

  XS· needs ~1.3 GB · Free to download · License: BSD 3-ClauseFile size: Source: Model source, 14 Oct 2026 · License: Source: License on the model card, 14 Oct 2026

• bge-m3

  archives and searches your documents

  Archive

  Runs in:

  • AnythingLLM
  • Open WebUI

  Fits on:

  • 💻Windows laptop, 8 GB
  • 🖥️Old office PC, 8 GB
  • 🍎MacBook Air, 8 GB

  +24

  XS· needs ~1.5 GB · Free to download · License: MITFile size: Source: Model source, 14 Oct 2026 · License: Source: License on the model card, 14 Oct 2026

• nomic-embed-text

  searches English documents

  Archive

  Runs in:

  • AnythingLLM
  • Ollama

  Fits on:

  • 💻Windows laptop, 4 GB
  • 🖥️Old office PC, 4 GB
  • 🍎MacBook Air, 8 GB

  +26

  XS· needs ~0.6 GB · Free to download · License: Apache 2.0File size: Source: Model source, 14 Oct 2026 · License: Source: License on the model card, 14 Oct 2026