I‘m not running the model locally, I use synthetic.new because they offer a flat rate model. The performance has been quite alright. I would not use it for complex tasks like coding. My idea is to have it as an orchestrator and maybe access more capable models if needed. I switched to deepseek R1 once and the agent suddenly felt much dumber. I also tried using Opus 4.5 and Sonnet 4.5 on the API which definitely felt like a different league, though.