# Qwopus

10 Hacker News commenters recommended Qwopus and 4 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 7 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** People recommend Qwopus, a Qwen fine-tune in Opus style, for solid local coding and grunt-work tasks across multiple files. Critics say its marketing overstates it and that results vary between runs.

## Why people recommend it

- Solid quality and benchmarks (4 comments): "Rapid MLX team has done some interesting benchmarking that suggests Qwopus 27B is pretty solid." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47847386)) "It's a nice refinement of the current 27b with slightly better stats." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48722952)) "I've been pleasantly surprised by its quality" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48557131))
- Best local results for some users (2 comments): "the Opus 4.6 distilled versions of the model ("Qwopus") tend to perform better for other tasks" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47458733)) "I have had my best results locally so far from Qwopus" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49301451))
- Runs on modest hardware (2 comments): "Now I'm feeling pretty good about getting 10-11 tokens/sec running Qwopus 3.6-35B-A3B Q6_K" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49526511)) "Runs the 3bit model faster than the 2bit one runs on my old-ass card" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49613575))

## What people warn about

- Claims seen as overhyped (2 comments): "it seems quite subjective to suggest it's the latest latest or greatest Qwen iteration" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47750310)) "The Qwopus models are marketing." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48726495))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Qwen 3.8 27B](https://hackerapproved.com/p/qwen-3-8-27b.md): 1173 recommend
- [Z.ai GLM](https://hackerapproved.com/p/glm-5-2.md): 1043 recommend
- [Kimi](https://hackerapproved.com/p/kimi-k3.md): 931 recommend
- [Gemma 4](https://hackerapproved.com/p/gemma-4.md): 713 recommend
- [Qwen](https://hackerapproved.com/p/qwen.md): 474 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Qwopus", https://hackerapproved.com/p/qwopus/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).