Free Open-Source AI Model: 300ms Response Times Tested

I Just Tested the New Open-Source AI Model Everyone’s Talking About — It’s Faster Than Claude and Actually Free Hook I spent last week running the same prompts through this new open-source model and the major paid alternatives. The results shocked me. We’re talking response times under 300ms on consumer hardware while Claude is hitting 2-3 seconds. And it actually works—not a stripped-down version that cuts corners on reasoning, but legitimately competitive output. ...

March 16, 2026 · 18 min · Henry

Open-Source LLM Performance vs Proprietary APIs

The Open-Source LLM That’s Finally Beating Proprietary Models on Speed (And It’s Free) Hook I’ve been running the same proprietary API calls in production for three years. Same vendor, same pricing tiers, same latency problems at 3am when everyone’s online. Then last month I tested a new open-source model and got results back 40% faster while cutting my inference costs to basically zero. That’s not a marginal improvement. That’s the kind of shift that makes you question why you’re still paying enterprise rates. ...

March 14, 2026 · 18 min · Henry